[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

[Alexander Lam]

Hello,

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:40 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at extof.me> wrote:
>> let's just all chant together in hopes that flash video will endure a
>> quick, fiery demise, and webm/VP8 will rise from the ashes to claim
>> it's place.
>
> meh! flash works... I don't think I've tried the webm stuff... but I
> did try the youtube html5 beta and it just didn't work well. flash
> does more than just video anyways. I'll be ok with html5 <video> if it
> works as good as flash for the purpose... but flash does so much more,

Javascript+HTML5 does a lot of what flash can do now (all of these
HTML5 demos work in firefox):
http://craftymind.com/factory/html5video/CanvasVideo.html

And an asteroids game:
http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/asteroids/


> and it will certainly is better than going back to the days of
> 'proprietary plugins, and codecs'.
>
> --
> Caleb Cushing
>
> http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
>


-- 
Alexander Lam