On Mar 27, 12:40 am, Phil <[email protected]> wrote: > Much as I admire the iPad as a piece of technology I don't see it > being terribly influential of itself (aside of sprouting a number of > clones, that is). It's never going to sell in numbers big enough to > influence the use (or otherwise) of Flash on the web beyond a few > headline sites that 'have to' be seen to work. The iPhone has never > supported Flash but I don't see the big brands adapting sites to work > with the iPhone on any kind of large scale.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/html5-for-ipad-wont-kill-flash-but-could-change-apps/ http://www.tipb.com/2010/03/28/ted-nonflash-iphone-ipad/ :-) With IE 9 supporting H.264 natively, it's a safe assumption that most online video will be in H.264 (if it isn't already). For some use cases, this will make it trivial to offer plain H.264 with HMTL 5 / for iPhone OS devices (and all other mobile devices that don't have Flash but support H.264) and "Flash H.264" for older browsers / browser that don't support H.264 out of principle (Firefox, Opera; Dear Firefox, you don't want to support H.264 because of patents and now you're stuck with Flash video instead. Feeling better now?). But it's not always that easy - Flash can dynamically adapt the video quality to your bandwidth (as can Silverlight), and there's more to online video than just streaming (measuring what parts of the videos you see, putting in ads, DRM, tools support, standardized ActionScript in Flash vs. browser-specific JavaScript etc.) that H.264 just doesn't have. So Flash video will be with us for a long time, I guess. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
