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. 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. Lee
