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Originally Posted by deadmalc View Post
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http://www.youtube.com/html5

it would be nice to get rid of flash, or at least have less of it.
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Not working in Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows, or Swiftfox 3.5.4 on Ubuntu. Like it or not, Flash does it best.

I have to ask myself, because sometimes now and then somebody screams about opening up Flash: what benefit do you envision from having open-source flash ? I somehow doubt that everybody will start working on it and add contributions - let's face it, it is not such an interesting piece of software to work on to begin with. The code inside probably isn't also very portable, and doesn't have a large range of uses - I doubt that one would find highly advanced features here not available elsewhere.

If its just about principles, let's go start working fulltime on gnash - but that project doesn't have much traction despite of the data specifications being in the open, which again shows that the flash runtime itself isn't very interesting to work upon.

So what would be the benefits of Adobe opening their flash implementation ?