On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:12:24PM +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: > Flash wasn't really used until YouTube started pushing it on sheeple.
I was making flash animations in 1999. flash based websites were very common by 2005, when youtube started. theora is not a product of FOSS. it was abandoned by On2 a decade ago, because it was already obsolete then. the theora bitstream format was not finalized until 2008. only recently has theora been able to compete with other, more modern, video compression codecs. there still exists no usable theora decoder for first and second generation iphones, despite efforts by the FOSS community to create one. until HTML 5, there has been no standardised way to embed video into web pages. flash has been used to embed content into web pages for at least a decade. I wonder, what percentage of browsers in use today support <video>, and what percent have a working flash player? I'm not saying flash is good. I'm saying there has not been, and really still isn't, a technically better option for usably embedding video into web pages. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
