Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Jul 2009 21:20 UTC
A day earlier than expected, Microsoft has released version 3 of its Flash alternative Silverlight, including a number of related tools to aid in Silverlight development. It comes with a whole lot of new features.
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Member since:2007-02-17
Except its not being bundled with the computers, its being used as an optional update. Also, I hardly see anti-trust being entered into the equation when Flash dominates it in terms of web usage. Let me reinforce the fact that its an OPTIONAL update. On XP most users wont even KNOW to download it since you have to manually go to Windows update, do a custom search and then add it. Vista/Win7 makes it easier since its listed under the built in client but again, you have to click View All Updates and its listed as...OPTIONAL. So, how is that abusing their position? Considering flash comes bundled on most computers now adays by the OEM and is virtually required for all web usage. Silverlight atleast as the possibility of being open and Microsoft is working with (though slowly) the linux base to port it
You don't need proprietary junk like Silverlight or Flash that is constrained to run only on platforms which the proprietary owners decide to port it to.
Everyone is immeasurably better off if no one vendor gets to decide which devices can and which cannot support rich multimedia content. This is so fundamental it can be considered as a guiding principle for the entire internet.
To that end, W3C standards HTML5 + SMIL (+ open codecs) + SVG + ECMAScript + animated PNG are far, far preferable to either Silverlight OR Flash.
http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/
http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo
The W3C open standards are just as capable performance-wise too.
http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/06/hey-youtube-we-want-open-video...
http://people.xiph.org/~maikmerten/youtube/
"It is possible to use Theora to serve streaming content on the web without inflating bitrate or dramatically decreasing quality compared to the H.264 encoding setup used by the web's most popular online streaming service."
Edited 2009-07-10 02:31 UTC
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Except there is no standardized codec now for video watching with HTML5...so its going to be another cluster. How many different implementations and bastardizations will there be? (again, NO standard) Hell, when is HTML5 actually going to be finished? Its been worked on since what...originally 2004 and 2007? So in 2015 it might be finished?
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Except its not being bundled with the computers, its being used as an optional update. Also, I hardly see anti-trust being entered into the equation when Flash dominates it in terms of web usage.
Let me reinforce the fact that its an OPTIONAL update. On XP most users wont even KNOW to download it since you have to manually go to Windows update, do a custom search and then add it. Vista/Win7 makes it easier since its listed under the built in client but again, you have to click View All Updates and its listed as...OPTIONAL. So, how is that abusing their position? Considering flash comes bundled on most computers now adays by the OEM and is virtually required for all web usage. Silverlight atleast as the possibility of being open and Microsoft is working with (though slowly) the linux base to port it
Edited 2009-07-10 02:20 UTC