On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:20, Lee Revell was like:
> On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 15:40 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > tim hall wrote:
> > > On Friday 22 September 2006 15:03, Lee Revell was like:
> > >> I would call it "sheer idiocy" and yet another reason Flash is evil.
> > >
> > > Yeah, Flash is evil.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately most know-nothing computer users expect it to work out of
> > > the box. What open-source alternative is there that gives the same kind
> > > of scriptable interaction? The merciless MNG didn't turn out to be much
> > > of an adversary did it?
> >
> > The paradigm that Flash represents is great but the way they license it
> > and continue to keep it private when it is very obviously a monopoly is
> > evil.
> >
> > It's still the most effective way to get high quality animation or video
> > into a webpage and you know that 95% of the browsers in the world
> > support it. Compared to embedded mpg, wmv or rm...
>
> What's wrong with embedded .mpg or .wmv, other than being easy to
> download (or "pirate" if you talk to the content people). Those work on
> a much wider range of OSes than Flash.
>
> For example, why in the hell do YouTube and Google Video default to
> flash? Embedded .mpg would be MUCH more user friendly.
.mpg is great for video. I agree that flash players for other media suck.
However .mpg doesn't provide animated vector graphics with scriptable
interactivity, unless I've missed something.
> Flash does not work at all on my Linux system (terrible AV sync,
> probably because my machine is slow), but I can watch DVD-quality .mpgs
> and .avis without dropping a frame.
Flash works on my system, but it drops frames all over the place. Sure would
be nice to break the monopoly. I'll dream on for now. :)
-- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim We are the people We've been waiting for.Received on Sun Sep 24 00:15:02 2006
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