Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:51 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Macromedia sinks on sales news
> Wouldn't removing the Flash and remaking the feature in HTML or
> _javascript_ or something else actually take MORE time than patching the
> <object> tag to work with their already functional Flash? I would
> imagine that the number of lazy folks out there who would stop using a
> technology rather than patch some code wouldn't add up to a
significant
> number (and probably wouldn't be the customers that Macromedia wants
in
> the first place). Think about it, one line of <object> code can embed
> an
> entire application, what's the likelihood you can recreate that
> functionality quicker than you can alter that line of code.
>
I didn't suggest it had anything to do with Laziness. Again, there are
sites that currently make use of Flash, but not _javascript_. If they are
required to start using _javascript_ they well decide not to use Flash.
Remember that just because using _javascript_ is no big deal to you
doesn't mean there aren't company who have internal directives not to
use it for their web site for whatever reason.
> As far as the browsers implementing the plug-ins as native technology,
> that's kind of unsettling to me. Knowing the browser vendors'
> propensity
> to half-way support even the W3C Standards, do we really want to open
> up
> that can of worms? There would be too many issues for that to be a
> reality. How would you implement Windows Media on a Linux version of
> Mozilla? You'd start to get even greater fragmentation between browser
> versions on different platforms, and features would be supported
> differently and behave differently from browser to browser, OS to OS.
I
> think that the browser makers have enough to do just trying to fully
> support CSS2 and make their browsers work the same from platform to
> platform.
>
I wasn't suggesting that Mozilla would embed Windows Media on Linux. I
was however suggesting that Microsoft can embed Windows Media directly
into IE to solve the problem. In fact, if they did that and provided an
alternative to Flash they could lock out their competitors without
being anti-competitive.
Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.MontaraSoftware.com
(888) 408-0900 x901
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