On Jueves 04 Junio 2009 23:47:21 Kevin Kofler escribió:
Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
> the end of life for flash player (HTML5)
Unfortunately, as much as I'd like that to be true, at this point it's
mostly just wishful thinking. :-( (It's good that Dailymotion is leading
the way there though. It's NOT good that they're hardcoding a browser check
for only Firefox though, the latest Arora which does support HTML 5 video
is not recognized, that's broken!)
I was really surprised - hardcoded download of FF 3.5 :(
Now we just need HTML 5 video support in Konqueror! :-) (And an entry
for
Firefox 3.5 in the list of fake browser IDs for crappy sites which still
don't understand that sniffing user agents is broken!)
That said, unfortunately, I think we'll be stuck with some sites using
Flash crap for years to come. :-( Projects like Gnash and Swfdec will
remain important. I agree that people should NOT install the proprietary
Flash.
Mostly it depends on YouTube - it's 90% of all Flash content for me. So if
YouTube (and p0rn variants :D) adopts <video> tag, battle is nearly won. For
games - <canvas> with JS is nice way. But it's missing IDE as Adobe has - my
roommate is using some and I have to admit - it's really great tool - if you
are more designer than coder. For now - we have technology, now we need tools.
> I am very happy to watch a video without macromedia flash.
FYI, YouTube works with Gnash if you have the required codecs (but embedded
YouTube videos elsewhere don't work). There's also the solution to download
the videos from most of those sites using various downloaders or
servicemenus, then watch them with any video player.
But HTML 5 with patent-free codecs is clearly the solution we should all
fight for! (But hardcoded checks for only Firefox aren't!)
That's the problem - there must be at least fallback to patent-free open
codec. It's OK for me to encode video to hypermegacool patent obfuscated
"high" quality (marketing stuff) codec but there has to be Theora encoded
video server as base to support all browsers! PS: There is nice progress on
Theora field!
Jaroslav
Kevin Kofler