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Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash?
An anonymous reader writes "The Microsoft Windows Engineering Team has announced that the Metro interface web browser in Windows 8 will not support plug-ins — Adobe Flash included. Users will still be able to open a traditional browser interface to make use of legacy sites that rely upon plug-ins. This news follows a recent blog post by the Internet Explorer 10 team pushing the use of HTML5 video as a replacement to Flash video. With Google, Apple, Mozilla, Opera and other major players already backing HTML5 — is Adobe Flash finally dead?"
As opposed to what? All the formats are patented.
H.264 is technically better format too. That's why it should be picked, not based on some religious free software views.
Microsoft is only going to support the codecs they want to support, so this is just another way of leveraging what's left of their monopoly position — it's just more evil. The real goal is to murder Flash which competes with Microsoft's own technologies, like the supposedly-soon-to-be-abandoned Silverlight. Silverlight is pure canned shit compared to Flash. You can't even sync video to vtrace on XP. Microsoft literally traded a seat on their board for Netflix using Silverlight instead of Flash. As a result, there is no Linux support.
Fuck Microsoft, and fuck the horse that rode in on them.
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they aren't confident in the codebase being patent free.
And how could they be? By reviewing the 1.5 trillion software patents already on record?
Write boring code, not shiny code!
The answer is - iPhone/Mac/Safari uses the h.264 interface on YouTube ... regardless of HTML5
Apple do not seem to like Flash - for good reasons - and so have persuaded Google to allow it's software to use the native codecs regardless of HTML 5 support
the iPhone has a specific chip to decode h.264
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