Adobe gave Mozilla ActionScript language sources

Adobe Systems Corporation has opened the source code for the scripting language used by Flash Player for Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser. This will allow free web application developers to create Web 2.0 style apps that are compatible with Firefox.

ActionScript is based on the ECMAScript standard, which is also used in Microsoft JScript. Mozilla is going to include it in its new project Tamarin, designed for web developers, reports iTWire . According to Adobe, ActionScript has several advantages over Jscript.