There is some buzz about the possibility, chance and point of open sourcing Flash.
As a web-developer I tend not to use Flash. If I can implement a feature without Flash I will. If I have to use Flash I keep it minimal. If people show me full-Flash apps. I want to know why they did it in Flash. The only two places Flash truly shines in my opinion are; as a video player in web-pages ala YouTube and for small, tricky, slick controls that are too finicky to do well in JavaScript/CSS/HTML.
Why do I try not to use Flash? Because I like text and am not a binary fan. Images (JPEG, GIF and PNG) are binary but they aren’t source. They aren’t applications, they don’t contain logic or have functionality like an SWF can. I can’t view-source on an SWF easily, I can’t hack a few characters, rerun it and see the change. I can’t easily mold an existing Flash into something else.
For me this is what CSS, HTML and JavaScript do so well. You can hack them, save them, view source, pipe them through a cheese grater and get something usable on the other end. Anything you see done with them you can figure out.
So open sourcing Flash isn’t going to make me sing hallelujah and start using it. A pity but there you go.
(As for Apollo I am really, really happy it isn’t a Flash container. It is a web container, it can house CSS, JavaScript and HTML without an ounce of Flash in sight.)
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