I think that's the way to go: implement existing documented standards like Flash in open source players. Then we're free. Make SWF what ODF is to office suites. You wanna run closed-source reference implementation? Go ahead. Want to free yourself from reliance on it with a little extra short-term risk, can do that too. Over time, both approaches will have parity with enough competition hopefully. Same happened with PDF already.
Alexey ________________________________ From: Karsten Silz <karsten.s...@gmail.com> To: The Java Posse <javaposse@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sun, January 16, 2011 1:54:15 PM Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Google to drop H.264 codec from Chrome On Jan 15, 2:46 pm, remco <remco.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hate to say this on a java newsgroup but I was using a silverlight > video website on my ubuntu laptop I use for work. Moonlight of the > mono project worked very well and it is open source. So there is your > open source alternative to flash, Strictly, speaking, it's an open source alternative to Silverlight, not Flash. There's a lot more Flash content out there than Silverlight, so an open source alternative Flash player should play the existing content, not ask you to rewrite it. If you have to rewrite it anyway, I wouldn't go for Silverlight. There is a bunch of Flash "players" implemented in Javascript, but they aren't mature yet: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Smokescreen-a-JavaScript-Flash-Player-1015644.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
