great point! With WebKit-SproutCore, Apple is moving Cocoa to the Windows platform. With XAML-Silverlight, Microsoft is leveraging the MSOffice monopoly to kill Adobe Flash RiA. And Adobe is trying to reposition their proprietary RiA as a friendly to ppen source and open standards through their involvement with Mozilla taligent, WebKit, and now this open web screen stuff. This is War!
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18 Jun 08
Gary EdwardsExcellent comment focused on the clash between Flash and Apple. Apple promotes JavaScript, CSS and AJAX: the WebKit- SproutCore recipe
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Throughout 2007, Apple stripped nearly every vestige of Flash from its corporate site and other products, and began recommending that developers use open standards instead. As noted in Gone in a Flash: More on Apple’s iPhone Web Plans, last summer Apple published a document titled "Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone," which not only listed Flash as the single bullet point item under a listing of "unsupported technologies," but went on to explicitly encourage developers to "stick with standards," and use CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax instead.
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Add Sticky NoteMicrosoft has already begun leveraging its Windows and Office monopolies to distribute Silverlight as a Flash-killer on both the Windows PC desktop and on the Mac. When Microsoft releases a Mac product, it can only mean one thing: it's working hard to kill a cross platform threat to Windows.
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Add Sticky Notethe new Cocoa iPhone/iPod Touch SDK not only offers Adobe insufficient means to develop a Flash plugin, but also clearly forbids the development of runtimes designed to advance competing platforms on top of the native Cocoa environment, whether Flash, Silverlight, or Java.
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that's news! OK, so the Cocoa-SproutCore SDK blocks the development of proprietary runtimes. Does it also block the development of open source - open standard runtimes? Like FSF GNASH?
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Add Sticky NoteApple is fighting for control of media distribution with open standards! What is it you do not get about Mpeg4, AAC, MP3 and H.264?
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well said! I hope it's true.
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Add Sticky NoteSilverlight will just not play H264 content : as usual, microsoft has adopted a look alike, incompatible video format : VC1.
About why Quicktime is better that Flash when it comes to serious H264 usage, you may want to have a look at the following note/demonstration of a quicktime+javascript player :
http://blog.vrarchitect.net/post/200...ter-than-Flash
In short : Quicktime can reach any frame of a video. Flash just reach the I-Frames. So if you have a GOP/keyframing of 250 for instance, you can see only one frame every 10s of video (to be honest, most classical gop implies a frame every one or two seconds)-
Silverlight supports VC1? And not H.264? Call in the EU, UiC, and FSF
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