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Adobe ventures into open fonts

Posted Aug 8, 2012 0:09 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
Parent article: Adobe ventures into open fonts

> Adobe has not historically been an open source player (beyond its involvement with standard file formats like PDF or SVG)

I think you're forgetting the contribution of the Tamarin ECMAScript JIT engine to Mozilla: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/
Sadly, it was not a big success.

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Posted Aug 9, 2012 2:56 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Here is another example of that:

http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2009/09/24/adobe-data-freed/

Adobe ventures into open fonts

Posted Aug 10, 2012 10:03 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

The Tamarin engine itself might not get any development.

But I believe that every version of Firefox since 4 uses method JIT. The method JIT came from Tamarin I believe, even if only the ideas and not code.

The Wikipedia article does state that certain Adobe products use the Mozilla/Firefox Javascript engine. Including Adobe Flash Professional, not sure if that means that the Flash player also uses it. Probably not.

Here is the Wikipedia article I mentioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_%28JavaScript_e...

Adobe ventures into open fonts

Posted Aug 10, 2012 10:08 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

Seems I was at least partly wrong, NanoJIT part of Tamarin is uses in TraceMonkey, which was removed from Firefox since version 11: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tamarin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_%28JavaScript_e...