[OT] Flash wants standalones

[Jim Lambert]

This is indeed OT but... Here's John Dowdell's take on Macromedia Central.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/jd_forum/jd027.html

He positions Central on a middle ground between the browser and a
net-connected application, such as we can whip up with Rev. He makes a lot
of "Trust." Basically, the Macromedia Central client is a kind of
application installer/browser (if you will). It lets users see what kind of
Flash 'applications' are available, downloads and installs 'em, handles
local storage, handles communications between the Flash apps and to the
backend(s), as well as ecommerce and other stuff (for which Macromedia snags
20%). Kinda sounds like a Rev app that brings over stacks. Wonder if they
wrote it in Director!? Nah, that would be eating their own dog food.

Echoes of the ill-fated Shockmachine and shockwave.com. Still, the idea of
escaping browser tyranny through net-enabled applications is great. As noted
earlier, Richard Gaskin wrote a wonderful paper on this years ago.

Jim Lambert