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March 2013

Matthew Fabb

Adobe Shake-up

Kevin Lynch leaves Adobe for Apple

Adobe Shake Up

Adobe isn't hiring a new CTO

Adobe business unit heads will run
technology development

Adobe Shake Up

Thibault Imbert leaves the Flash Runtimes team

Adobe Shake Up

Thibault Imbert is now
"Group Product Manager Web Platform"

He is writing a JavaScript book for ActionScript developers
typedarray.org

Adobe Shake Up

Bill Howard is the new

Group Product Manager of Flash Runtimes

@BillAtAdobe

Flash & AIR

Flash & AIR roadmap updated!!

Flash & AIR

GamePad support for desktop browsers & Android
OUYA Controller support
Increasing the max texture size to 4096x4096
16-bit texture support
Better iCloud Support
Android Captive Runtime Debugging
And more...

IE10 & Flash

Microsoft switches from a white list to black list
for Flash content for IE10 on Windows 8

IE11

Windows Blue as leaked / announced
Rumored to be released August 2013

Includes IE11

IE11

Leaked build shows that Microsoft is changing

IE11 user string

IE10

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)

IE11

Mozilla/5.0 (IE 11.0; Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0E; .NET4.0C;
rv:11.0) like Gecko

Chrome Mobile

Data Compression Proxy

JPEGs & PNGs get converted to WebP

Reduce data usage up to 50%

Currently just on Chrome Mobile Beta

JS Frameworks

jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 is out

Android 2.3 kills some optimizations. :-(

Final version jQuery 2.0 possibly shipping for

jQuery UK on April 19

JS Frameworks

Backbone reaches 1.0!

Google & MPEG LA

Google & MPEG LA agree to royalty-free terms
for VP8 / WebM video codec

Google & MPEG LA

Google is NOT admitting that VP8 violates
any patents on H-264

Google's license includes any 3rd party sub-licensor

Covers the next gen video codec VP9 & H-265

Google & Nokia

Nokia has asserted a patent claim against HTC & Google
for the use of VP8 in Android in a German court

Mozilla & Unreal 3

Mozilla & Epic Games have ported
the Unreal Engine 3

Mozilla & Unreal 3

The Citadel demo is the same demo from 2011

of Flash Player 11

Emscripten compiler to port C and C++ code to asm.js

Mozilla & Unreal 3

Uses OdinMonkey

An asm.js optimization module for

Firefox’s JavaScript engine

OdinMonkey will ship with Firefox 22 in June

Mozilla & Unreal 3

Just JavaScript so it should still work on other browsers

Just very slowly

Which is why Mozilla thinks other browsers will follow