- From: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@geekhood.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:25:57 -0000
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:57:23 -0000, Christian Kaiser <kaiserc@google.com> wrote: >> <object> isn't a good example, as it was a horrible idea. ^_^ > > Let me push on this a bit. If you're saying that <object> was a horrible > idea, does that mean you'd rather have had a world where web video was > impossible until the first implementations of HTML5 with <video> support > came out? > A world where all the great innovation that NPAPI plugins enabled would > have been impossible? > How would that world have been better than the one we experienced? I think Tab clarified, that given IE's innovation freeze and strong position, plug-ins were in fact a better way to innovate. Today however, without IE holding back the web, browsers are doing fine, and couple of the top innovating ones are royalty-free. And perhaps without avenue to establish ActiveX, IE's position wouldn't be as strong? Plugins are a double-edged sword. -- regards, Kornel Lesiński
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