According to news.com, Macromedia is trying to do away with the browser and replace the whole schmegeggie with a new version of Flash. oh joyous day. Among the benefits are things being able to validate forms on the client side, and generally making web apps "work just like TVs and ATMs". (That sounds disturbingly familiar...)
The promised results include business Web sites that will be substantially easier for customers to navigate and cheaper for businesses to maintain.
Funny, that's exactly what Zope, AxKit and Template Toolkit and OpenFrame are promising, without the sexy lack-of-backward-compatibility. Maybe I'm missing something here....
Macromedia are trying to save themself. Inside news are not good about the stability and viability of the company, and they are getting scared about SVG taking over with all the power that Adobe is putting behind it and the snowball effect it's having in the XML and Open Source worlds.
I certainly hope they fail, I'm pretty sure they will (who wants a site that search engines can't crawl?). I found this comment (provided by Matt) very funny.
Increasingly, I feel the itch to set up burnallswf.org...
