Google join Adobe's Open Screen Project

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 05 October 2009, 19:08 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: Google has announced that it will join Adobe's Open Screen Project, which was established a year and a half ago to help developers design content for the web across multiple screens using the Flash platform. Google has been working closely with Adobe since many years. Many Google projects such as YouTube, Android, Google site search, Google Chrome and even Google web search requires close integration with Adobe's technologies. Breaking the news through Google blog, a post by Bill Coughran, Senior Vice President of Engineering says, "We've always believed that open platforms lead to greater innovation on the web and we see participating in the Open Screen Project as another step in that direction. We're excited to continue working with the teams at Adobe on pushing the web forward and to see where the next generation of web development will take us." Open Screen Project is an industry-wide initiative, led by Adobe with the participation of other industry leaders, to enable the delivery of rich multi screen experiences built on a consistent runtime environment for open web browsing and standalone applications. Few of these leaders who have participated in the project are Qualcomm, Nokia, Motorola and Symbian foundation. Nokia and Adobe have announced more than 35 funded multi-screen applications as part of the joint Open Screen Project Fund. Both companies also introduced new Nokia Web Runtime (WRT) extensions for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software making the creation of mobile WRT widgets for supported Nokia devices easier.