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Google betas Flash-free YouTube sans open codec • The Register
Google has publicly released an experimental YouTube player that uses the HTML5 video tag, as it continues the (very) slow process of moving the world's most popular video-sharing site away from Adobe Flash. As you may or may not expect, the player does not embrace the open and license free Ogg Theora codec. Announced yesterday on the YouTube blog , it sticks with H.264, the same video codec used by the current version of YouTube. Among other things, this means it will not work with Opera or Firefox. And it can only be used with Internet Explorer if you turn the Microsoft browser into a Google browser using Mountain View's controversial Chrome Frame plug-in. A Google spokesman indicated that the choice of H.264 over Ogg does not mean the company has picked H.264 for an eventual Flash-free version of YouTube.The public battle between Adobe and Apple over bringing Flash to the iPhone, and now iPad , platforms has heated up the debate over the life expectancy of Flash as newer technologies, specifically the emerging HTML5 standard, enter the scene. Adobe Flash helped to fill a void for a cross-platform multimedia experience on the Web. With the glaring exception of the iPhone and upcoming iPad , Flash can be found on virtually every other operating system--desktop and mobile, and for every Web browser. Flash is almost a standard in and of itself. Just try surfing the Web without installing the Flash Player software and you will quickly see just how pervasive Flash is.
Is It Time for the Web to Abandon Flash? - PCWorld Business Cent
Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch this week defended Flash as superior to HTML 5 and accused Apple of being uncooperative as it relates to putting Flash on the iPhone or iPad. "We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on [the iPhone and iPad] if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen," Lynch wrote in a blog post . Apple's upcoming iPad tablet, which was unveiled last week , will not include Flash support. In a town hall with employees, Steve Jobs reportedly said that Apple avoided Flash on the iPad because Flash is too buggy, and HTML 5 is the wave of the future, according to Wired . Lynch was not convinced. He said that Flash is currently available on the iPhone via standalone apps like FickleBox and Chroma Circuit – apps that will work on the iPad as well, he said.
Adobe Defends Flash, Calls Apple Uncooperative - Reviews by PC M
Adobe screw-up leaves Flash flaw unpatched for 16 months | Zero
is that what it would take to provide competition to Adobe would likely end up being considered anticompetitive itself. Let's use the example of Silverlight, since it's similar in its goals and the closest thing to competition that Adobe's got. What drives the userbase of Flash isn't so much the Flash player in itself, but instead that virtually every website requires it. Virtually every website requires it because every web designer I know has taken a college course or three in Flash.
Adobe apologizes for festering Flash crash bug • The Register
An Adobe product manager has apologized for allowing a potentially serious bug in Flash Player to remain unfixed for more than 16 months. The admission, by Emmy Huang, product manager for Flash, came a week after Apple CEO Steve Jobs lambasted Adobe engineers as "lazy" and said when Macs crash, "more often than not it’s because of Flash." Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch struck back, insisting that at Adobe, "we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs." The crash bug at issue in Huang's blog post published over the weekend was reported in September 2008, but it has yet to be excised from release versions of Flash.
Adobe has fired back at Steve Jobs after the Apple boss allegedly attacked Adobe Flash for being "buggy" and referred to the Flashmakers as "lazy." "I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs," Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch wrote today in a back-and-forth with commenters on an Adobe corporate blog, "and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today." We weren't aware that only non-buggy products achieved widespread use. But there you have it. According to Wired , at an Apple "town hall" meeting after the introduction of the Flashless iPad, Steve Jobs unloaded on Google, calling the search giant's "don't be evil" motto "bullshit," before rounding on Adobe.
Adobe to Jobs: 'What the Flash do you know?' • The Register
Did Steve Jobs just kill Flash?
What was Steve Jobs thinking? That's been the general reaction to the most obvious shortcoming of Apple's new iPad—the tablet doesn't support Flash. While Jobs claims his new device will offer the best browsing experience on the planet, that's a hard argument to make when the iPad throws up little blue Lego icons when it encounters most Web videos.
This Wednesday was probably the first day on the (potentially long) path to Adobe Flash decline: the most popular video site out there – YouTube – started offering videos in Flash-less mode for browsers which support HTML 5 and h.264 video codec. And then IE9 ships and all latest browsers will play videos natively. Flash will no longer be required for video, and why would anyone want it then?