Posted by J.O. Aho on 04/09/07 11:12

Travis Newbury wrote:
>> I realise there will be no right or wrong answer, but I'd like to please
>> "most of the people, most of the time."
>
> For maximum compatibility and control, your best choice is Flash. For
> video it takes an extra step of encoding to FLV format, but in the
> long run there are more people that will have the ability to see and
> hear your media.

Why do people think flash is a good choice from compatibility point of view,
adobe supports 3 operating systems, but only in two architectures for one of
the operating systems (one will be dropped) and the two other operating
systems only in one architecture (even if both has been released to a good
number of architectures).

Sure there is a open source flash player (hardly supports flash4), but it's
still have years to go before it's on the same level as todays flash players,
but at that point todays adobe flash player will be obsolete and replaced with
one with features that makes no one will be releasing anything working for
flash7/8/9.

Just looking at flash player 9, it don't support transparency in all the
operating systems it has been released for, one site that works for flash 9 in
one operating system don't work in another. If wanting as broad user base as
possible.

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//Aho

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