On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe, finally, web developers will produce HTML that is standards > compliant, rather than IE compliant. Perhaps this will also spur > Gnash development - when it becomes more useful than Adobe Flash > Player, Gnash can be bundled with Chromium and maybe Chrome, making > Chrome even more open source.
There has been much tech press lately about Google's decision to drop support for H.264 in upcoming Chrome builds, in favor of WebM (VP8) and Theora. See, for example: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Googles-H264-Move-The-Right-Thing-or-the-Worst-Thing-for-Web-Standards-71686.html I am having a hard time making sense of it all, and developing any sense of whether this is "good for Linux" or "bad for Linux." Apple fanboys (John Gruber, especially) and (from what I can tell) many Microsofties are unhappy with Google's move. Some Linux folk seem pleased; others, not so much. While I've seen a lot of discussion about whether this move strengthens or weakens Flash's stranglehold on web video, I've not seen any mention of what effect (if any) this might have on Gnash or other open-source implementations of Flash. Basically, I'm lost. I just hope we don't go back to the days of some stuff not working / not being accessible when you're booted into a Linux OS. Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
