Re: FLASH: SWF not an open format????

[daniel gray]

> At 10:42 AM 3/31/0, ryan wrote:

> > MacWEEK said:

> > > As some observers at the Flashforward2000 conference noted,

> > > however, not all of Flash's capabilities are open, such as

> > > the use of "if-then" conditional statements; these capabilities

> > > are not included in LiveMotion.


John Dowdell wrote:


> As Benny noted, the SWF 3.0 file format has been used by many over the past

> two years, but the SWF 4.0 file format with advanced interactivity and

> streaming MP3 was only published recently.

> 

> LiveMotion does use the MP3 audio compression, but the interactivity is

> similar to what was in Flash 2.


John -


So ... are "if-then" conditional statements part of the openness of the

SWF file format?  Or not?


What is or isn't?


Many thanks!


Cheers,

Dan


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