On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Alexander Lam <lambchop468@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:40 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> let's just all chant together in hopes that flash video will endure a >>> quick, fiery demise, and webm/VP8 will rise from the ashes to claim >>> it's place. >> >> 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. 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, > > Javascript+HTML5 does a lot of what flash can do now (all of these > HTML5 demos work in firefox): > http://craftymind.com/factory/html5video/CanvasVideo.html > > And an asteroids game: > http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/asteroids/ > > >> and it will certainly is better than going back to the days of >> 'proprietary plugins, and codecs'. like... flash? ;-D alexander beat me to the punch; i was also going to say that the extensive javascript APIs present in HTML5 are more than sufficient for the vast majority of reasons people use flash today. my personal favorite: http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/ ... in javascript! brilliant. C Anthony
