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Old 04-30-2010, 10:00 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
What disturbs me, though, is the insistence that the banning of Flash and Java from the iPad is a good thing.
I think it's a "good" thing only in the sense that it has spurred some large content providers to start using HTML 5; anything that pushes web standards forward is a win, IMO.

Personally, I'm not bothered by the lack of Flash on the iPs, but I wouldn't object to it being included either, as long as there was a way to turn it off. Apple could even throw up a big notification box every time the plug-in brought down Safari, just so people would know who to blame.

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So, while I like H.264 as a codec, I am not celebrating the replacement of one proprietary video format with another.
Fair point (though technically we're talking about replacing a proprietary container with an open one, regardless of the codec used - lots of Flash video uses H.264). At the moment H.264 seems like the best of a bad lot; there just isn't a viable codec that meets all of the standards for openness that we'd have in an ideal world. But yeah, I'd feel better if they could standardize on a codec that met H.264's quality while being free of any potential poison pills down the road.
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