Two new open source frameworks from Adobe
Posted by cornel | Filed under Events
Adobe announced two new open source frameworks: Open Source Media Framework (previously called Strobe) and the Text Layout Framework. What can you do with these frameworks?
OSMF is a set of components that you can use in order to build your own video player. Until OSMF you either had to use a pre-built player and try to customize its behavior or you had to create your own player. Most of the time the second option was embraced, especially by media publishers. Now, with OSMF it should be much easier to do that.
TLF is a framework for text layout – more powerful than HTML/CSS. It has support for bidirectional text, multiple columns and other typographical features. It does not depend on the Flex Framework so it can be used even from a simple Flash application. A good example of usage is the New York Times TimesReader 2.0.