Comments | domesticmouse: All out war on Adobe?

domesticmouse

All out war on Adobe?

Jan 26, 2010 08:54

There is an interesting thing happening in the browser space at the moment under the rubric of HTML5 video. Both Apple and Google are pushing H.264, which is causing some friction. Firstly, here is John Gruber, aka Daring Fireball, talking about how flash video sucks on OSX and why he thinks Apple's iTablet will ship sans flash. And here's ( Read more... )

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thorfinn February 2 2010, 02:37:07 UTC

It's about bloody time - I read AusCERT. A quite significantly noticeable proportion of the Remote Exploit vulnerabilities are to do with Adobe software.

domesticmouse February 2 2010, 09:36:48 UTC

It always gets interesting when the big boys start playing vote someone off the island.

thorfinn February 3 2010, 03:40:38 UTC

Yeah, well, in this case, well deserved. Adobe have been playing musclebound thickhead for far too long. :-)

domesticmouse February 3 2010, 04:28:37 UTC

Adobe is the only player in the market making tools that designers and artists can use, so i'm intrigued to see if they drop back to being just tooling for html5, or if something else is going to happen. Adobe started moving in the direction of integrating into the open source stack, eg the tracing jit in firefox is derived from flash's actionscript3 runtime.

(might as well treat adobe as a single entity, eh?)