Tamarin , the latest Mozilla project addition, is the result of Adobe contributing their Flash Player Scripting engine to the Mozilla team, A move Brendan Eich, chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation, and creator of JavaScript said to be “the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception,”.
Personally I don’t feel this is all too suprising. As I have said in my post GUI toolkits for web apps? (proberly in need of an update) the Adobe Flex IDE looked to be (at the time of writing) a high candidate for the creation of interactive web applications. If the Flash support on Linux based operating systems (or anything else FireFox has been ported to) gains momentum Adobe will be in a very desirable place.
A very appreciated gesture, thaks Adobe! – Please bring us Photoshop!
Java Community News – Adobe Contributes Flash VM Code to Mozilla
Mozilla – Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine
November 11, 2006 at 11:10 pm
bring us photoshop…
and someone out there make something a buttload more tolerable.