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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Too late to edit but I thought I'd quote what's happening in Chrome in regards to built in h.264 support:
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/htm...in-chrome.html
It's probably not a wise move to rely solely on it. It's a good technology but due to it not being fully open there are many who do not support it. |
That is all about HTML5 and nothing to do with Flash.
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To that end, we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project.
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Flash will play the h.264 video, not chrome/firefox/ie/opera/safari/etc....
The reason we are using Flash players is because it works in all those browsers
because those browsers turn the work over to the Flash engine.
HTML5 is a useful tool, however, I still consider that it fails in too many areas when
compared with Flash.
Chrome's move to take out h.264 is just more fail for HTML5, because Flash
will continue to play h.264 in the Chrome browser anyway.
The problem with HTML5 is that it does not provide the kind of awesome tools
for the programmer that is in Flash. So html5 looks cool to a webmaster putting
up a video but looks like a black hole to a programmer trying to draw and create
animation.
I can't even begin to list the failures of HTML5 if Flash
games are considered.
So I don't see programmers and animators giving up Flash any time soon and thus
relying on HTML5.
If someone hires me to make them a video player then I sure as hell ain't going to
make it HTML5. I wanna get paid when the shit is done.
