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2009-06-03
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#12
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Originally Posted by Lord Raiden
a glimmer of hope?
Well, as an interesting aside, HTML 5 will end the need for flash. All you'll need is an HTML5 compliant browser, and support installed for open codecs and the problem of flash goes away.
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2009-06-03
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Of course someone need to develop for it in the first place. And HTML5 is not a panacea - it still has a way to go and also it doesn't cover all the functionality of Flash. Also it is closed and that appeals to the commercial sector. 
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2009-06-03
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Originally Posted by attila77
... which, in turn, was derived from Macromedia Director's "Author Once Play Anywhere".
'develop once and deploy everywhere' ? Isn't that a transliteration of the Java 'write once, run anywhere'
The NVIDIA announcement just confirms they're optimizing upcoming hardware to work together with Flash. I don't know of any bearing on Nokia Internet Tablet.
@JayOnThaBeat, yes, we've got to beat those versioning differences. The over-the-air updates in Open Screen Project will help. Nokia's a big influence in OSP. Improvements are currently in development.
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2009-06-03
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Originally Posted by jdowdell
Sa-weeeet!
... which, in turn, was derived from Macromedia Director's "Author Once Play Anywhere".
The NVIDIA announcement just confirms they're optimizing upcoming hardware to work together with Flash. I don't know of any bearing on Nokia Internet Tablet.
@JayOnThaBeat, yes, we've got to beat those versioning differences. The over-the-air updates in Open Screen Project will help. Nokia's a big influence in OSP. Improvements are currently in development.
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2009-06-03
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Iirc, flash could be gpu accelerated on desktop linux for a long time now. Tho, thats using opengl, and hogging the DRI interfaces so that compiz and similar was having issues...
What put Flash where it is today was a creation tool that was fairly inexpensive, readily available, and most of all, easy for designers--not programmers--to use. HTML 5 will need something similar to gain ground on Flash.
Macromedia's been absorbed, Adobe has reason to keep Flash dominant, and Microsoft is busy trying to create an alternative it can control. I'd like an open source solution, but it has taken a long time for the Gimp and Inkscape to get where they are, and they're still pooh-poohed by most designers.
I'm hopeful that HTML 5 will win against Flash in the long term, but I expect it will be a slow, hard fought battle.
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