Am Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:57:56 -0400 schrieb Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx>: > meh! flash works... I don't think I've tried the webm stuff... but I > did try the youtube html5 beta and it just didn't work well. For me YouTube HTML5 is working much better than the Flash stuff (despite the missing implementations of the proper video codecs in the browsers), particularly the cache is loaded much faster than with Flash and the playback and skipping through the video by clicking onto the progress bar is much faster and smoother. > flash > does more than just video anyways. I'll be ok with html5 <video> if it > works as good as flash for the purpose... but flash does so much more, > and it will certainly is better than going back to the days of > 'proprietary plugins, and codecs'. I completely disagree. Flash can, of course, do much more than just video. But video currently is the most important feature. And I never understood why all those video portals thought they had to implement those videos in this proprietary Flash than just using the already existing and well and better working video plugins like mplayer-plugin resp. gecko-mediaplayer. I also hate these websites which are completely and only implemented in Flash. They are usually loaded and rendered much slower than simple HTML websites, look at least not better, sometimes even worse and can only be seen with such a proprietary plugin. There are very few exceptions. For building small games like Samorost 1 and 2 e.g. Flash is quite nice, because such games can easily be written and played in a webbrowser. Disadvantage again: If the proprietary plugin doesn't work or doesn't exist these games can't be played anymore. So better such games should better be written in C. And last but not least there are those annoying flickering Flash ads. All in all Flash is just annoying and superfluous. Heiko
