Alan Horkan wrote:
Adobe have announced a project for representing PDF in XML called Mars. They have also announced a project to cooperate with Mozilla on a shared ECMAScipt project codenamed Apollo. (Javascript is formally known as ECMA Script, Adobe/Macromedia has long had a version called Actionscript but I still like the original name Livescript best.)
Quoting the mozilla.org announcement at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html a related project is Tamarin and is aiming to "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."
However what is worrying is that "web developers now have a high-performance, open source virtual machine for building and deploying interactive applications across both Adobe Flash Player and the Firefox web browser".
Considering the fact that Adobe has announced that the Adobe SVG plugin will be discontinued, I hope that Adobe's "contribution" will not undermine the quality of the SVG viewer in Firefox, favoring Flash-based vector graphics on the web.
- Spyros Blanas