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miércoles, 08 de noviembre de 2006 |
Unifies Modern Scripting Across Firefox and Flash and Advances
Innovation on the Web
SAN FRANCISCO — November 7, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and the Mozilla
Foundation, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice
and innovation on the Internet, today announced that Adobe has
contributed source code for the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine, the
powerful standards-based scripting language engine in Adobe® Flash®
Player, to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla
will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the
development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and
engaging Web applications.
The Tamarin project will implement the final version of the ECMAScript Edition 4 standard language, which Mozilla will use within the next generation of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, Mozilla’s free Web browser. As of today, developers working on SpiderMonkey will have access to the Tamarin code in the Mozilla CVS repository via the project page located at www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/. Contributions to the code will be managed by a governing body of developers from both Adobe and Mozilla.
“Adobe’s work on the new virtual machine is the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception,” said Brendan Eich, chief technology officer, Mozilla Corporation, and creator of JavaScript. “Now web developers have a high-performance, open source
virtual machine for building and deploying interactive applications
across both Adobe Flash Player and the Firefox web browser. We’re
excited about joining the Adobe and Mozilla communities to advance ECMAScript.”
“This is a major milestone in bringing together the broader HTML and
Flash development communities around a common language, and empowering
the creation of even more innovative applications in the Web 2.0
world,” said Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief
software architect at Adobe. “By working with the open source community
we are accelerating the adoption of a standard language for creating
and delivering richer, more interactive experiences that work
consistently across PCs and mobile devices.”
Tamarin implements the ECMAScript standard used by languages such as
JavaScript, Adobe ActionScript, and Microsoft JScript, the primary
languages developers use for building rich Internet applications.
Adobe and Mozilla are both
active participants in the ECMA International Programming Language
technical committee (TC39-TG1) developing the ECMAScript Edition 4
(ES4) standard.
“There is nothing better for a standard than to have it implemented in
multiple products,” said Jan van den Beld, Secretary General, Ecma
International. “Adobe is taking a huge step forward in driving
standards-based Web development by open source licensing their virtual
machine technology.”
Adobe’s most recent virtual machine for ActionScript 3.0, a core
component of Adobe Flash Player 9 released in June 2006, was built from
the ground up to offer breakthrough performance and features, including
more efficient memory utilization, faster application start-
times, improved debugging and full runtime error reporting. Adobe Flash
Player is installed on over 700 million Internet-connected PCs and
mobile devices worldwide. The ActionScript Virtual Machine features a
Just In Time (JIT) compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to
native machine code for maximum execution speed. Now developers can
leverage existing skills to quickly and easily build complex rich
Internet applications increasingly required as users
demand more interactive Web experiences.
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