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

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Alexander Lam <lambchop468 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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'.

like... flash? ;-D

alexander beat me to the punch; i was also going to say that the
extensive javascript APIs present in HTML5 are more than sufficient
for the vast majority of reasons people use flash today.

my personal favorite:

http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/

... in javascript!  brilliant.

C Anthony