On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Sam Sherlock wrote:

MS is on board but for vista & windows 7 users only

Quite true. All for-profit companies are in things for themselves. No news flash there.

But if I could tease out the original purpose of my question once more, it'd be to say that Flash has been used to introduce interactivity + multimedia into web pages. True, there are other ways to get interactivity, and other ways to get multimedia into web pages, but Flash offers a one-stop shopping tool, and as has been said, most/many people have the flash plug-in, so playback is more or less assured across the intertoobs.

Add that Flash comes with a load of issues, some for users, some for developers, which are unpleasant. CPU overhead, difficulties in updating/modifying sites are 2 I can think of.

So my question is: can CSS and/or Javascript plus *some* codec of movie/sound content replace Flash?


cs

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