On 30/07/10 10:35, MJ Ray wrote:
Because the current situation of having Adobe controlling which platforms can watch video, the lacklustre support for Linux platforms and the extra "features" like phone-home most people get without knowing it is far worse than a simple<video> tag.
I still don't understand what you mean about lacklustre support for Linux platforms ?
Flash works for me as well (or as badly) on Linux as it does on Windows/Mac. Yes it took them a fair while to get a 64bit native plugin released but then it did for Windows too (rumour has it that there was some horrible chunk of ASM in the code that had to be rewritten)
If you are talking still about support for alternative architectures then please tell me which relevant (i.e those that still have a relevant desktop market share and actually have the horsepower to render flash video) alternatives you would like to see supported.
Adobe aren't the ones in control of which platforms can watch web video. The content creators are when they choose Flash as a delivery mechanism (it's not the only option after all) I would say with things like the iPad not supporting Flash they are probably reviewing that anyway.
As to the phone-home feature, I can't find anything on the web that qualifies this statement, do you have a linky I can read to enlighten myself ?