I find this odd.......
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| Ridcully Feb 05, 2010 2:43 AM EDT |
My understanding was that Flash, Silverlight and Moonlight would eventually be wholly superseded by HTML5 when it finally hits the streets - whenever that might be. For the moment, my impression is that Flash appears to be the de facto standard even if it does have some hiccups, so why not get that de facto standard really humming along as a universal and really good piece of software instead of pushing other barrows that carry the same sort of thing ? Or perhaps Miguel sees something I cannot ? |
| gus3 Feb 05, 2010 2:58 AM EDT |
Flash is, sadly, proprietary, and 99% designed to work only on x86. The GNU project Gnash is attempting to overcome this. To oversimplify: The HTML5 standard merely introduces a VIDEO element, but it specifies nothing about the format of the referenced stream. Hence the earlier article "HTML5 vs. Flash", and Kroc Camen's sub-optimal "Video for Everybody": http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody |
| cabreh Feb 05, 2010 3:03 AM EDT |
First of all Miguel is only the Wizard of Oz, Microsoft is the man behind the curtain. (Sorry if you've never seen the original Wizard of Oz). Microsoft cannot stand any company but themselves to be successful in the computer world. So, when someone starts to become the standard in something they try to usurp them with their own product, go into collaboration with them to steal their product, or outright buy the technology. Here they want to overthrow Flash with their product. They have enlisted Miguel to try and get the Linux community on Silverlight's side to do so. Miguel is only the willing collaborator. |
| jacog Feb 05, 2010 4:24 AM EDT |
HTML5 is actually able to replace Flash/Silverlight etc., but the problem is that there's no standard API for media people to use to develop content. Coders are fine, but not the types that go to design schools and learn to use Photoshop and Flash. |
| Ridcully Feb 05, 2010 5:10 AM EDT |
Thanks gus3; I knew it was proprietary, but the way things were going, I had a first impression that Adobe was happy to allow everybody to use it in the same way as pdf - I stand corrected ? I confess to my shame I had not heard of Gnash, and that will be rectified asap. And for cabreh......I threw a more or less "open" statement about Miguel so it would allow others to comment.......I have vastly different and negative personal opinions of a person I class as a quisling and it would appear your impression is similar. Looks like the whole web media apropos Flash etc. is still in a very large state of flux.. |
| hkwint Feb 05, 2010 8:27 AM EDT |
There's this early 90's memo from Bill Gates I read a while ago. It was back at the time of Netscape. Bill Gates was complaining, he just spent 5 hours on the net (probably one of the first times he did so) and he didn't find any Microsoft-formats on it. No .doc, .xls or whatever. Basically, other formats (like HTML) owned the web. Then, he went on telling how this should change. OOXML, XPS ("MS-PDF"), Silverlight, VC1: All of them were made to make MS ubiquitous and at the same time insurmountable on the web. Because when the OS becomes irrelevant, you should 'own' the portal to the web (hence IE and ActiveX). And when you own the portal to the web, you can be a publican: Even if people don't use Windows, you could still earn from people using the net. However, this strategy didn't succeed. One of the biggest problems is Flash, and the fact that it's not Microsoft. That's why they even try to bring .NET and SilverLight to stuff like Linux and iPhoneOS, normally they'd just don't care if the web was already theirs. |
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