Adobe offers scripting source code for Mozilla

Adobe has just decided to offer the script to the Mozilla Foundation in the most positive and most widely regarded move ever.

At the Web 2.0 conference held in San Francisco yesterday (November 7), Adobe will announce the offering of software to run JavaScript programs in the Firefox Web browser. This is an open source project called "Tamarin", with the participation of developers from Adobe and Mozilla.

Adobe will provide ActionScript Virtual Machine virtualization software, currently used to run script code in Adobe Flash Player 9, for Mozilla's browser.

Expected, the first version of Mozilla browser application virtualization engine will appear in the first half of 2008.

Reportedly, the scripting language of the virtual server Adobe Flash Player is used to run programs written in ActionScript language, based on the international standard Ecma International called ECMAScript Edition 4. The widely used scripting languages like JavaScript and Microsoft JScript are also compatible with this standard.

The latest version of Adobe's scripting engine, launched in June 2006 with Flash Player 9, uses a new compilation mechanism, which allows programs to run 10 times faster than the others. previous version.

According to Kevin Lynch, Adobe's chief software engineer, the deal with Mozilla is the biggest dedication to open source that Adobe has ever done. Further steps in both companies' future plans will allow developers to mix and merge programming technologies together, including AJAX, Flash web development. for media and animation .