Articulate on iPads?

Wallaby is cool. I rather like the idea of a client side interpreter for the encapsulated Flash assemblies better. Project Smokescreen is an open source project that seems to do a decent job with older functional sets.

What the HTML5 bandwagon fail to register is that while the Flash IDE is closed, the SWF format is quite open. The SWF format is a really nice way to organize encapsulation of media elements. I liken SWF to ZIP. Zips are everywhere. So are SWF's - why not think of them in the same way. Complex media interactions and multimedia assemblies could be expressed in the SWF format and neatly transport to whatever interpreter (Flash player, smokescreen interpreter) you choose. Lots of potential in this concept.

Unfortunately folks like Apple like to twist and fud practical terms into extreme language that clouds pragmatic decision-making... Flash is not a proprietary file format. It hasn't been for a long time. It's a controlled spec with a single controlling party that is motivated by a paying customer base to do their bidding. I don't see the problem