Hello,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lachlan Hunt</b> <<a href="mailto:lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au">lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Alexey Feldgendler wrote:<br>> Flash player does not ship with browsers, at least not with every<br>> browser, but this doesn't prevent Flash from being widely used.<br><br> "Initially, the Flash Player plug-in was not bundled with popular web
<br> browsers and users had to visit Macromedia website to download it,<br> but as of year 2000, the Flash Player was already being distributed<br> with all AOL, Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers. Two years
<br> later it shipped with all releases of Windows XP." -- Wikipedia<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#History">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#History</a><br><br>Besides, Flash is one of the few successful plugins. Many others that
<br>have failed.<br></blockquote></div><br>Yeah, Macromedia did a good job of spreading their Flash plug-in.<br><br>From a Internet & Web video point-of-view... Too bad Java applet support isn't ubiquitous any more. With Java you can write your own codecs. With Flash you can't.
<br><br>Although I was told Java has about 80% support still. So things like Cortado <<a href="http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/">http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/</a>> still work in many many browsers still.<br><br>
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