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Forbidden makes a strategic move to JavaScript
Forbidden makes a strategic move to JavaScript.
About this update from Blackbird Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4735O Forbidden Technologies PLC 21 August 2017 \n\nDissemination of a Regulatory Announcement that contains inside information according to REGULATION (EU) No 596/2014 (MAR)\n \n 21 August 2017\n \nForbidden Technologies plc\n(\"Forbidden\" or the \"Company\")\n \nForbidden makes a strategic move to JavaScript\n \nForbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT) is pleased to announce the first JavaScript implementation of its core cloud Video Library \"VidLib\", used as part of the Forscene platform.\n \nForbidden's first video player used Java to run on \"out of the box\" computers, enabling products to work immediately without the requirement for installation or configuration. Increasingly, Java's browser role is fulfilled by JavaScript, which is widely available on PCs, Macs and mobile devices.\n \nVidLib, the core of the Java-based Forscene cloud video editor, downloads, renders and plays back edits in real time during editing. As an enabling standard, JavaScript enables wide ranging capabilities. VidLib is now being converted to run in JavaScript, allowing it to benefit from JavaScript's flexibility, and become more widely available to a number of different devices and operating systems.\n \nForbidden's first VidLib application is a video player - the Blackbird Player (\"Player\"). This has a number of strong features including Forbidden's patented Video Waveform navigation system, high performance jog and shuttle, and playback at multiple speeds. The Player can also render and play Forscene edits in real time.\n \nForbidden's second JavaScript VidLib...