Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

Posted Dec 10, 2006 0:02 UTC (Sun) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard by bronson
Parent article: Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

Theora is as convient as quicktime for Windows users and it is as convient as WMV for OS X users.

The reason people are using Flash is partially because of it being convient, but it also has a lot to do with that the fact that it's not aviable in convient format for storage.

That is if you put a download to your website a person downloads it and emails it to friends and such..

But if you put it in Flash, like youtube, were your website is advertising-driven then they are forced to come back to that web page over and over again to view it. Drives up advertising revenue quite a bit.

Also it adds extra restrictions on usage so people are more comfortable uploading content because they don't think that people can 'steal' it.

So flash is used, in a large way, because it is awkward to deal with.

Of course both you and I know there is ways around this, but it's still a PITA.