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Originally Posted by Tamara
We live near Disney and I absolutely abhor going to their website for information. Their splash page is horrid.
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Wow!
First, there is no "splash" page on the Disney site. I'll assume you are referring to the home page.
Second, what exactly do you "abhor" and what exactly do you find "horrid?" Disney is famous for their extensive testing and tracking, so if you really feel this way, you may be way removed from their target audience (or are simply an Apple zealot
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Third, how does the fact that you "live near Disney" have any bearing on your competency to critique the Disney site?
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Originally Posted by scottjl
hmm. infoworld is trying to broker peace between apple and adobe. will it work? I doubt it, jobs is pretty stubborn and adobe would have to release action script to standards bodies, something they have resisted for years (well macromedia did before adobe). |
Infoworld makes much more important point in Eric Knorr's
Stop bashing Flash:
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... the bulk of Hachamovitch's post was devoted to explaining that H.264 will be the only video codec natively supported by IE9 -- and should be the codec of choice for HTML5. Both Silverlight and Flash already support H.264, but due to licensing restrictions (you can't embed a proprietary codec in a pure open source browser), Firefox cannot provide native support. In an HTML5 future where neither Flash nor Silverlight will be required to play embedded Web video, Firefox gets aced out.
Jobs' motives are less convoluted. His "most important" reason for shutting out Flash is that it's a "cross-platform development tool." Even more transparently: "The 200,000 apps on Apple's App Store prove that Flash isn't necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications." In other words, he doesn't want the competition, and wrapping himself in the HTML5 flag is a great way to look "open" as he slams the door on Flash. ..."
The wide adoption of the proprietary H.264 video codec pushed by Apple, and now MS, will kill open source browsers.
The only hope for open source browsers and open video on the web, is the possibility that Google opens VP8, which it acquired for $125 million recently.