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 > > 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 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 >> >> > > Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ebb89cd.7020...@gmail.com
