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Last week, I had a chance to demo a Wii at the Nintendo World Store and these are my impressions…

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This is huge news! Adobe has just contributed the virtual machine running in Flash Player 9 to be Mozilla’s implementation of ECMAScript 4. Read Tinic Uro’s announcement here or the story on CNN here.

What an enormous and generous contribution! Macromedia, and then Adobe, surely spent thousands of developer-hours on this VM. Beyond that, it is fully tested, optimized, and proven by its real-world use in Flash 9 and Flex 2 apps. Adobe well deserves a round of applause for giving it to the open-source Mozilla project, and hopefully both products will be bettered by their common codebase.

Furthermore, Adobe is committing to a continued relationship with the Mozilla project:

Adobe has a dedicated team for this open source project, including Dan Smith, module owner, and Jeff Dyer and Edwin Smith — Adobe engineers who worked on the original source code. Contributions to the Tamarin effort will be managed by a governing body of developers from both Adobe and Mozilla.

This is taken from a good FAQ hosted at mozilla.org which might clear up a few questions.

Kayak is a great site for searching for flights. You probably already know about this but I just heard about it today. It’s built on everyone’s favorite web technologies and is generally a lot simpler and nicer to use than the others. It also looks like they’re working on some other fun things.

I hardly think this site needs any comment. The fact that Adobe is showcasing this site is what I can’t believe. It’s terrible PR for Adobe, like they’re saying “look, you can make your websites unusable, inaccessible, and horrendous with our technology!” Ok, this is troll bait, so I’m not going to go further… but let’s just take away the lesson that because you can do it with Flex doesn’t mean you should do it with Flex. Be safe kids!!!