On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com> wrote:
I have no idea, it was simply the latest ubuntu live CD, i386 I believe. I never claimed that it was scientific, just recent experience. I used a live CD for this because I didn't want to install flash, but now I couldn't install it if I wanted to (practically I could, but it would be insane).
so... you're blaming flash for something that /could/ be a problem with your environment... and certainly something flash was not designed to run on... I've had livecd's with graphical environments cease to respond after leaving them unattended. I blame the environment... livecd's are great for recovery... but mediocre, at best, for an actual environment.
The whole thing is a great example why we should avoid proprietary technologies. First we're used as a testbed, then dropped. It shows how much you're at the companies mercy. That alone is reason enough for me to not use stuff like flash or skype.
right... as if open source never stops getting supported for long periods of time... synergy anyone? or that we're never used as a testbed *cough*kde 4.0*cough*.
It wasn't about the game, but more about how well it runs. I was surprised to say the least. It kind of defeats the 'flash is much more than video' argument. Same is probably true for that wikipedia video page I linked somewhere, it has well working controls, very similar to those of flash players.
I'm sure it does...
I've no idea about how well it is supported across browsers, only tried FF. I agree that it should work across all browsers and also all platforms (not sure flash does ppc and stuff). It might or might not work in some alternative browsers, but they sadly still have plenty of issues anyway. IE however will have to catch up in reasonable time if it lags behind other major browsers. From what I remember, they said they'll support webm, if only as codec you need to install separately. Proper html5 and js support will have to happen too.
it depends... I doubt many/any companies will do a full switch without at least 50% market share. Which IE still holds, (flash has something like 99% market share). Certainly it's not going away on youtube.
So maybe it's not all there yet, and flash isn't dead yet, but I think (and hope) it won't take very long.
I suspect unless IE adopts webm it'll be around for a very long time. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com