Re: SWF (Adobe Flash) support

[Gilbert Sullivan <whirlygig@comcast.net>]

On 05/18/2011 06:59 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:53:56AM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> > Who knows? Since Adobe has stated that new versions of the Flash
> > server are going to automatically serve html5 when the client lacks
> > the Flash reader, perhaps users of free software will benefit. The
> > html5 content at YouTube works very well with chromium-browser.
> > Better than the Flash content, as a matter of fact.
> I was unaware that there was html5 content on YouTube.  For those
> equally ignorant:
>
> http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/watch-video-in-youtubes-html5-player.html
> http://www.youtube.com/html5
>
> -Rob
Hi, Rob!

Yeah. I forget just when it was that I stumbled upon that feature. On 
all of my systems -- at least -- the HTML5 videos (when they are 
available) play better than the concomitant Flash videos. Now I would 
expect that, considering that I'm using that much-maligned (a little 
unfairly, in my opinion) gnash plug-in.

However, I fancy that I see the same improvement in quality going from 
Flash to HTML5 on friends' Windows systems. And those are most 
definitely not running gnash as the Flash player!