Runtime wars (1): Does Apple have an answer to Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX? ... - The Diigo Meta page

• 18 Jun 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  Another excellent discussion concerning the Future of the Web. 2 Parts

  ria webkit sproutcore javascript flash silverlight

  • Adobe’s got Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX. What does Apple have in this multimedia runtime war of information and entertainment delivery?

     

    On the surface, nothing. Some might argue that QuickTime is already the answer; Flash and Silverlight are finally catching up. Further, if Apple can convince Google’s YouTube to re-encode their video inventory in QuickTime’s primary codec H.264/AVC and if the new Flash player will also feature the industry standard H.264, why bother with anything else?

     

    Because more than just video is at stake here. Surely, both Silverlight and the latest Flash offer high-resolution video, but they also deliver (rich media) applications.
  • This new breed of network-aware platforms are capable of interacting with remote application servers and databases, parsing and emitting XML, crunching client-side scripts, rendering complex multimedia layouts, running animations, displaying vector graphics and overlaid videos, using sophisticated interface controls and pretty much anything desktop applications are able to do.

    • Good summary of RiA capabilities
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  Gary Edwards on 2008-06-18
  Good summary of RiA capabilities

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