On 10/31/06, Lachlan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
> Flash player does not ship with browsers, at least not with every
> browser, but this doesn't prevent Flash from being widely used.
"Initially, the Flash Player plug-in was not bundled with popular web
browsers and users had to visit Macromedia website to download it,
but as of year 2000, the Flash Player was already being distributed
with all AOL, Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers. Two years
later it shipped with all releases of Windows XP." -- Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#History
Besides, Flash is one of the few successful plugins. Many others that
have failed.
Yeah, Macromedia did a good job of spreading their Flash plug-in.
From a Internet & Web video point-of-view... Too bad Java applet support isn't ubiquitous any more. With Java you can write your own codecs. With Flash you can't.
Although I was told Java has about 80% support still. So things like Cortado <http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/> still work in many many browsers still.
See ya
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