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good work!

Posted Apr 4, 2007 16:41 UTC (Wed) by b7j0c (guest, #27559)
Parent article: Two approaches to Flash

grudgingly, i must accept that flash is a permanent part of the web landscape that has at least obliterated a few other binary codecs. i look forward to seeing these tools evolve...my impression is that swfdec may be a little further along for the sake of multimedia playback.

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good work!

Posted Apr 4, 2007 16:55 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

Flash actually helps Linux on that ever increasing number of sites that insist upon embedding the video into the web page and make it difficult or impossible to just download the file and play it.

Even with mplayer and vlc plugins, I still get spotty results. But flash seems to work every time.

Too bad it's so clunky, though.

good work!

Posted Apr 4, 2007 19:10 UTC (Wed) by mikov (guest, #33179) [Link] (1 responses)

It appears that Flash has become what Java applets should/could have been. What choices are there for client programming in the browser today ?

Java starts up way to slow and nobody has it installed anyway.

JavaScript - namely the browser interfaces for it - is a horrible ugly mess that can never be fixed.

Flash is the only reasonable alternative. I hope that it has rigidly defined interfaces and functionality. Lightweight Java, so to speak.

good work!

Posted Apr 12, 2007 8:51 UTC (Thu) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136) [Link]

> What choices are there for client programming in the browser today ?

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language


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