[opendtv] Re: Flash Gone from Android
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:37:14 -0500
At 9:14 PM -0800 2/17/12, Kon Wilms wrote:
> Gimme a break, Craig. Flash has supported H.264 ever since Flash
Player 9. We're at version 11 now. But it is true that the older
Flash codec supported features that H.264 doesn't. So it's a simple
matter of either allowing real-world, existing and abundant content
to work, and to work efficiently (via appropriate accelerators), or
getting a bug up your *ss and blocking it, for their own corporate
motives. (Did I mention that my old PC showed signs of stress when
first encountering H.264? And may I say "I told you so?" Just
because software can be updated, it does not mean that the hardware
is up to it!)
Down boy!
I'm not inventing this problem nor do I have a bug up my ass.
iOS supports Flash wrapped h.264.
Android phones that support recent versions of Flash player have
problems with battery life.
This is reality.
The rest is about a transition from a leading proprietary standard
for web composition and animation to an open standards based approach.
Adobe has stated they are moving to the open standards approach and
will update their tools to support it. Anyone invested in Flash will
be fine - most likely they will continue to create using familiar
tools, and save to HTML5.
I just received a request for a donation to a beer competition in a
file format I've not had to deal with...Microsoft publisher.
Microsoft recommends saving to .pdf, because the .pub file format is
not widely supported...
Just because a proprietary format becomes a defacto standard does not
mean that it cannot/should not be replaced with an open standard as
technology evolves.
Why would anyone want Linus or Open Source software?
Everyone uses Windows...
Right?
> I also noticed mention of interactive ads. Been there, done that.
When watching TV, the last thing I want to do is interact with ads.
My bet is, that feature will prove unpopular. You do it a few times,
then you want to tell them to go pound sand.
And the last thing I want when using my mobile browser is to be
constantly annoyed by Flash pop-ups...
Regards
Craig
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