Good new to start the day with! The Open Source media Framework (formerly codename “Strobe”) has been published on the Adobe Open Source website. OSMF is a modular Actionscript 3 based video player framework. The framework provides modules for CDN integration, syndication, tracking, etc. OSMF is licensed under the MPL 1.1 .
Read more about OSMF on the weblog of Ryan Stewart.

Alongside, the “Text Layout Framework” (TLF) has also been made opensource under MP 1.1. This is the rich text component that was the foundation for the excellent text rendering in the Times Reader 2.0. More demos of the TLF can be found on Adobe Labs.

I think these two components give a lot of power to the developer of interactive experiences; I am especially excited about the OSMF release. I’ve been debugging a (custom build) video player for the past couple of days and probably this construction of the player would have been much easier if it would have been build using OSMF. This is a very promising project!

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