On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But I'm not holding my breath while Flash goes away. A technology that >> pervasive and deeply embedded doesn't simply go away overnight. It >> needs to be replaced, and the content that used it recrafted in >> something else. > > 1). http://www.osnews.com/story/28253/YouTube_now_defaults_to_HTML5_video > 2). > http://youtube-eng.blogspot.nl/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html > > Keep in mind that YouTube is currently owned by Google. Also keep in > mind that it currently only claims to be fully supported on "Chrome, > IE 11, Safari 8 and in beta versions of Firefox". Infer whatever you > want from that. I infer that you need a relatively current browser. (And note that current release versions of Firefox support YouTube. A beta is not required.) The biggest use case for Flash has been video, which historically has been presented on the web as SWF objects. Google has been migrating YouTube away from Flash and to HTML5. The biggest reason for most folks to go to HTML5 has been the <video> keyword, which allows video to be embedded *without* requiring Flash. You still need a codec to decode and render video, but the codec can be delivered as part of the browser, and not require a plugin. (And there were amusing moments there, too. YouTube had a beta site where you could test the HTML5 versions. IE and Chrome worked. Firefox did not. The problem was that the HTML5 videos were encoded using H.264, a proprietary technology requiring a license fee. MS and Google paid the fee and included the plugin binary. Firefox did not because it was open source and required all components supplied with Firefox to have source available, and could not do so with the H.264 codec. Google subsequently decided to open source Chrome as well, and was looking at alternate codecs that could be offered as open source but had performance equivalent to H.264.) Current browser development makes the underlying assumption that plugins are bad, and that the user should need only a browser to view web content. Plugins get called as external processes, and a failing plugin can take the browser with it. That fact is responsible for Mozilla's plugin_helper executable, which runs plugins in a sandbox so a failing plugin doesn't also take down the browser, and for in part Chrome running each browser tab in a separate process. Meanwhile, if you are attempting to browse from DOS, you are increasingly far behind. I don't even *try* to browse from FreeDOS. Since I have Windows and Linux available, and currently supported browsers run in both, I have no need to. I do not see current web standards being supported in DOS browser. Aside from the fact that I'm not sure it's *possible*, who would invest the development effort to do it, and why? FreeDOS here is a toy. I run it to keep my hand in, and to play with old technology. I *don't* try to do critical work in it. I have Windows and Linux for that, and a lot of what I do simply can't be done in DOS. There are folks who *are* using DOS as a production OS, and have done so since DOS *was* the main OS on a PC. If your needs can be met by what DOS and DOS applications can do, more power to you. Mine can't. Too many discussions on topics like this resolve to "I don't want to change. I want to keep doing what I've always done. Development should stop in its tracks so I can continue to do that." I see this in Windows and Linux forums as well. There's a chap in a Linux forum elsewhere still trying to use Thunderbird 2.0 and finding it increasingly difficult. All I can say is "TBird 2.0? God. *Why?*" (The answer is he has it the way he likes it and doesn't want to change. He's near the point where he won't have a choice.) Unfortunately, the world does not sit still. Change is a constant, and adapting to change is a requirement. Tough. Deal with it. The world will not sit still for you. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
