I'm not willing to bet on plugin architecture or that Firefox won't solve their video encoder issues sometime soon. And I am not willing to ride on the coat tails o the gaming industry either. Have you seen the hits Zynga is taking on their stock? Games are a dime a dozen and so are the platforms to make them. I don't see a viable long term future for the Flash Player plugin in such a competitive field.
-Omar On Saturday, November 17, 2012, Hordur Thordarson wrote: > Yeah well Firefox is in a hole re the Flash plugin because they need it > for video playback (H264) which btw is driving a lot of web usage these > days. > > I haven't been following the dev of the Chrome pepper stuff so I can't > comment on that. I do use Flash in Chrome a lot though and haven't had any > major problems. But YMMV as always. > > As for the plugin architecture in the browser, it is allready mostly gone > from mobile browsers, but I don't think it will dissappear from desktop > browsers any time soon because there are still a lot of things the Flash > plugin can do that the browsers can't and there is also an enormous amount > of software out there that requres the Flash plugin and developers like are > still adding more, just look at the activity in Flash based games running > in the browser (Zynga, Rovio and a bunch of others are still happily > churning out Flash based games). > > On 17.11.2012, at 16:34, Omar Gonzalez wrote: > > > On Saturday, November 17, 2012, Hordur Thordarson wrote: > > > >>> > >> But maybe I'm reading all this wrong or maybe I'm believing too much > what > >> I think I'm reading or maybe the people here advocating a HTML/JS > strategy > >> for Flex have been burned more by Adobe than I have. > >> > >> > > Bingo! > > > > Also, Adobe can say whatever they want about their plans for Flash Player > > plugins. The truth is Firefox has at one point stated, from one of their > > VPs, that they would love to just not have a plugin architecture at all > and > > basically tell Flash to go F itself. Microsoft tried that with Metro and > > they got some backlash so they put it back in 'desktop' mode. Then we > have > > the Chrome pepper API, wow, wht a mess. It gets buggier and buggier with > > time. What does this all say to me? Plugin architecture has its days > > numbered. You can shove your head in the sand and choose to ignore the > > writing on the wall or you can start to strategize for a life without > Flash > > Player plugin. I choose to be prepared. Whether HTML5 is ready or not and > > whether its more efficient to develop in or not that is where the > industry > > is heading. > > > > -omar > >
