> Ok, I'm following you for 100% with the client installation. > Since the primary goal of the project is to help out total n00bs (Linux, Mac, > Windows, ... I don't care), using video, instead of technical texts, or > telephonists using words like 'navigating', 'browsing' or 'surfing' (yes, > believe me, these terms create confusion), from a users point of view, the > less actions required before the actual video is viewable, the better. > That's why I likes the AJAX-approach so much; you don't even need a plugin! > The only drawback: it uses the <canvas> extension, which is (what did you > expect?) not available in IE, but it is in nearly every other modern browser, > so actually, back to square one...
but IE exposes it's own drawing routines. With dojo (from trunk) you even get wrapper which uses either canvas/SVG/proprietary-IE-stuff, whatever the browser offers, only requirement: Javascript must be enabled. > > So, my second approach was to skip the inventive road, and rely on the > good 'ol flash plugin. So, I started captorials.com with a flash-based > viewer, and guess what, apparently, without even knowing it, I have shut out > the progressive user using 64bit platforms, because the plugin isn't > available for them. and will not even be with flashplayer 9, if I remember properly some blog entry form the flashplayer coders. -- Roberto Saccon _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
