Don¹t hold your breath for ogg support in all browsers. I imagine microsoft will be more interested in pushing silverlight than flash or ogg. Audio and video is a key front in the next generation of browser wars, so it won¹t be that simple.
As you note, Flash offers some useful stuff that¹s not yet core browser functionality. I imagine it will continue to innovate and push browser vendors. On 17/10/2008 06:38, "Johan Douma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see flash becoming a dominant technology in the future. It's definitly > not going to replace javascript. > It wouldn't actually surprise me if it is going to die off really slowly... > Only to be used in really specific cases. > > Flash gets used a lot today because the flash video codec is good and because > it's the easiest way to integrate some video into the browser without needed > any plugins that might not be on everybody's computer. Flash is on 99.9% of > the computers. > > Now that might change as well in the next 3 or 4 years as the video and audio > tag are going to be more and more available to easily integrate video and > audio files into a page. > We would still need plugins anyway, but browser could at least integrate open > sources plugins, like ogg... etc... > I only use flash for multiple file uploads, and some small animations in the > page itself. > > Ow and damn flash 10 has broken my file uploader, I'll have to work on that. > > > > > Cheers, > Johan Douma > > > 2008/10/16 Breton Slivka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Read the story on that page carefully. What has happened is that flash >> 10 has increased restrictions over what features within the flash >> plugin can be invoked via javascript. This only applies to one >> specific feature (file uploads), and effects virtually no other flash >> features. It does not effect javascript's abilities in general, only >> the abilities of javascript to use flash in certain ways. This point >> will largely become moot once video/audio/3d/canvas becomes widespread >> and built into browsers, and flash as a result becomes less relevant- >> Particularly on low powered platforms like the iPhone, and Android >> which do not have flash- or the wii which only has an older and >> underpowered version of flash. >> >> So in my opinion, to the contrary- This news story is reporting on >> decreased ability of the flash plugin to play well with javascript- It >> will not make flash replace javascript- Except as a workaround in the >> specific case of file uploads. >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Charles Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Hi Guys/Gals, >>> > >>> > I would like to get some opinion from you all, that would Flash 10 or ++ >>> > will replace JavaScript in the future? >>> > According to this blog : >>> > >>> http://ajaxian.com/archives/flash-10-and-the-bad-news-for-javascript-interac >>> tion. >>> > >>> > I found that alot of media website started to replace Javascript to play >>> > their audio/video and of course Flash required to be install as third >>> > party plugin and had to be updated (which is annoying). 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