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Can't wait for Flash to die!
40hz:
^I think as long as you're going to allow interactivity, you're going to have security issues no matter what gets used.
f0dder:
zridling: I was talking about efficiency, not security... but on the subject of security, while a lot of holes have been in java, flash, and the acrobat reader plugin, it's not like browsers themselves have been immune.
On performance, we'll have to wait and see. There's a lot of work going on wrt. optimizing JavaScript JITers, with a fair amount of competition between Chrome, FireFox and IE. But seeing how sluggish Panorama is in FF4 on lower-end machines, I'm not convinced "HTML5" is going to e better performing than flash any time soon...
zridling:
For those using an HTML5-supported browser, go here and click to join the HTML5 trial for YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
It will convert about 35-40% of the Flash videos on YouTube.
Stoic Joker:
For those using an HTML5-supported browser, go here and click to join the HTML5 trial for YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
It will convert about 35-40% of the Flash videos on YouTube.
-zridling (May 17, 2011, 07:15 PM)
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Cool, I'll give it a shot.
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