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by91degrees ( 207121 ) writes:
Do we use an inferior standard or a closed standard?
Maybe "implementation dependent" is the term we're after.
byhattig ( 47930 ) writes:
We could call it a day and use DRM encrusted WMV!
Bet Microsoft is miffed they didn't get in earlier with HTML5 video support, as it is most content providers will use H.264 and thus force it to become the de-facto standard.
bynine-times ( 778537 ) writes:
I think Microsoft has lost the media wars, and they pretty well know it. (admittedly, just a guess) Expect their products to support H264 and AAC. The bigger fly in their ointment is probably improved web standards in general. They've been gearing up to fight Adobe (Silverlight vs. Flash) for the proprietary "rich web" market, and if HTML/CSS gets rich enough that we don't need a proprietary plugin, that might not end up being a market worth winning.
bybetterunixthanunix ( 980855 ) writes:
Oh it will still be worth winning. Even if HTML5 provides a "rich web experience," applet based approaches like Flash are already very well established and will not go away overnight. The desktop application market never vanished even after web apps became popular, so why assume that plugins and applets will not be worth fighting for?
bynine-times ( 778537 ) writes:
Oh, I don't think Flash will go away overnight. On the other hand, a lot of that will be the inertia of people sticking with Flash particularly, which is exactly the force MS has to overcome to spur Silverlight adoption. But absent that inertia, I think people may well move to open standards, assuming sufficiently good standards exist.
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bya2wflc ( 705508 ) writes:
> I don't think Flash will go away overnight.
I don't think it will go away at all
Not when agencies can charge $100s for a 100K flash app that does something our html contractor could have done in 5 minutes and 2 lines of javascript he found online. (trivial apps like rotating images)
(Many) Agencies and individuals like to be "experts" on things that take special tools and knowledge so they can charge more.
LOTS of contractors can do html/css/basic javscript. Not as many can do flash and those who can do
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