Re: Adobe flash is dead [OT]
On 10/11/2011 09:22, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 10/11/11 19:07, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
On 09/11/2011 19:18, T o n g wrote:
Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile
devices:
Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead-
for-mobile-devices/
Steve Jobs wins: Flash being phased out from mobile devices
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1083764--steve-jobs-wins-flash-
being-phased-out-from-mobile-devices
Adobe flash is one of the tech-inventions that I resent the most.
Now it is dead for all mobiles, and I wish it is dead on the web
tomorrow.
Comments?
Well you've set a very inflammable topic there.
My feeling is that Google and it's jump into the mobile thing has been a
strong propellant to HTML5 and thus flash slowly dying. But at the same
time youtube which is both one of google's big things and *the* flash
site per excellence is still very 'betqaish' with html5, not to mention
all the other video hosting sites.
Fortunately HTML5 is still a draft - won't be a recommendation for some
time.
http://ishtml5readyyet.com/
;-p
Well, actually what's quite optimistic, I knew the foreseen time was
something like 2020.. :)
One of the problems I still see is the video codecs 'war'. We have this
wonderful<video> tag, but nobody knows what exaclty to encode the video
file in. Now if you have millions of videos to (re)encode that is not
trivial question.
Good points.
Did you know about VP8?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP8
Yes, but what I meant is for e.g. if you go to the youtube HTML5 test,
you'll see different codecs supported on different browsers.[1]
Lorenzo
[1] http://www.youtube.com/html5
Seems MS doesn't like it, but maybe the thawing of their anti-OpenSource
attitude (re: Cloud) might change that.
I guess it'll need time to settle, like if you're
putting a<img> tag you know the source is going to be .jpg, .png or
legacy .gif and that 99% browsers will support it - today (by the way it
looks like Internet Explora only supported full alpha in png at verions
7! [1]).
Lorenzo.
[1] http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html#msie-win-unix
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