- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:51:11 -0700
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > The current standard for publishing media on the Web, in particular > consumer media, is Adobe Flash. This is the case not because of the > codecs inside Adobe Flash but because sites such as YouTube enable > consumers to publish media without having to worry about license fees > and patents, as well as technical issues. The enabler here is the > embed tag. > And sites such as YouTube build on Adove Flash because it's the only currently viable cross-platform media technology that runs in most browsers. :-( -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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