On 5 February 2010 21:53, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, Cortado works in more places but there is no reason that BOTH
> can't be used, extending support to places with silverlight but
> without Java.


The thirty-second startup time of Java for Cortado makes it unusable,
in my experience. Here's to Firefox 3.5.


> Flash isn't something in the running because you still need to be
> using encumbered media formats to use it... unless you're only playing
> audio: There are several independent Vorbis implementations for the
> flash virtual machine, no video codecs yet, and sadly the flash
> architecture is no where near as nice as the silverlight one for
> remote-loaded codecs so you have to completely reinvent all the media
> infrastructure.


Indeed. What's the performance of the Flash ActiveScript Theora
decoder like? Horrible, or just bad?


- d.

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