[aklug] Re: Interesting info on Flash

Keep in mind the Apple article was a great PR move to get focus off of the
whole iPhone door-kickin of the Gizmodo reporter...
Secondly, it is not based on the latest version of Flash, which supports
much of what Apple states is not supported, including multi-touch.

There is also flash lite, which is less resource intensive and used on
mobile devices.

HTML 5 will not be widely adopted for some time. Primarily it will be used
for video, which is a very short view of what Flash brings to online media.
 A lot of what Flash supports is not being replaced by HTML 5, especially
not in the short term (1-2 years).

Also take in HTML 5 as the current, and long-lasting Javascript wars. It's
up to the browser creators to adopt and apply standards, of which we all
know is never accurate to standards.

Flash isn't going anywhere, it just happens that we won't have it on the
iPhone or iPad.

-Will

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>wrote:

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> >> that Microsoft and Apple would love to use. If Firefox can't=20
> >> play videos
> >> from youtube or CNN then its bye bye linux and hello=20
> >> Windows/IE for me and
> >> everyone else.
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> > Huh.
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> > I guess for me it would be "bye bye Youtube and CNN."
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> > (Actually not a very difficult choice for me -- I thought about it and
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> > ized that these days I use CNN only to check internet connectivity, and
> rar=
> > ely follow Youtube links at all.)
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> > But you are right, most people would use the browser that works,
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> > of licensing issues with the particular codec. =20
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> > It would be very similar to the early days of the web when video meant
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> > Media and their player. I'm sure that is exactly the scenario they're
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> > ng after. The masses get the player for free, but they can charge the
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> > ent creators whatever the market will bear to encode their stuff. Real
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> > ia let the market get away from them, but the proprietary folks are smart
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> > nough to learn from past mistakes.=20
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> Question: Isn't Flash at least theoretically compatible with open
> source? For the server side, there is Red5, and on the delivery side,
> there is Gnash. I don't know how well either of these projects actually
> work right now... but you could theoretically use both and not end up
> paying licensing fees to anyone.
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> Or am I missing something?
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