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Adobe and Nvidia bring GPU to the masses? Who fucking cares! Adobe is fearing upcoming competition from the <canvas> + webGL technologies. Why do you think they worked out this deal and started letting people develop for free in Flex as well as release Linux versions of the plug-in? I have a working canvas gauge that works on any web browser that supports canvas, it works on the iPhone and requires no heavy Flash plug-in. I use the iecanvas script so it also works in IE... http://www.digitaldarknet.net/flash/jsgauge.html
Why Flash is bad? It's controlled by one company, it's not open, and it's heavy on resources... Also, it's embedded and it's content is invisible to search engines. Silverlights the same monster... If Apple was smart it would create a canvas video player, with DRM as an option for mainstream media, that can be accessed from any device or platform running a browser that supports the canvas tag – like Safari on the iPhone for instance. Instead of iTunes downloading a full movie, just stream the damned thing through the canvas tag in iTunes or a canvas enabled web browser like Chrome. Help the webGL guys and make use of the video hardware for playback as well... Now you opened your video rentals to the world, including Linux users who currently cannot watch Netflix or run iTunes software! Because the canvas tag is nothing more than another html element with Javascript pulling the strings you already have a million developers that know how to make shit. Give them a few tips and maybe some tools and let them do their thing... Come on Apple, your a media company now, stop trying to control hardware and sell some content! The hardware is no longer Apple and the OS is only partly Apple so why bother spending time and money locking media to your pretend product line... One favor, please use ogg and ogg theora for the codecs for non-drm material! We can download your codecs for movies rentals, no big deal... If you let people solve some other problems that are typically left to Flash you can corner a market without spending or doing much of anything. Come on, just do it! |
