[NTLK] Thoughts on Impending Apple announcement

[Frank Lowney]

On Jan 24, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Doug Parker wrote:

> My SWAG prediction for Apple's big day:
> 
> Apple will finally announce an end to the
> no-Flash-on-the-iPhone dilemma, either by
> blessing a faster, leaner version of what's
> already available, or they'll announce a
> new standard that has the small footprint
> Steve has been calling for, and supports
> the existing Flash content.
> 
> Doug
> 

I’ll side with a new (open) standard.  Google, Mozilla and Apple are in basic agreement that HTML 5, CSS 3, SVG and Javascript are preferable to and can replace Flash in all or most cases.  It’s not just Flash that they are against.  They are deprecating all web browser plug-in architectures.  That  would include Silverlight and the QuickTime Plug-in (as distinguished from QuickTime itself) as well as Flash.  Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is supporting only some of this.  

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