

Unfortunately, the documentation was full of errors and the SDK was so riddled with bugs that you spent more time debugging it than using it. Finally, the format third party developers could unleash their creativity and usher in all kinds of amazing tools. They released documentation (which was poor at best) and an SDK (which was horrible at best).


Way back in the day, when Flash 4 was the latest and greatest, Macromedia decided to “open up” the Flash file format. As someone who works with Flash on an ongoing basis, I thought I'd chime in with a more in depth look at the issues.įirst off, let me explain my background for those of you who may not know. It is a bit premature to make such claims, but the Silverlight model is pretty amazing. A few people didn’t like my proclaimation that Flash is dead.
