Chrome dropping h.264 support
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not at all buddy.. not at all.. I do like WebM.. Flash will be just ok btw.. Adobe is doing better then ever and Flash is a lot more then video.. so that's not really a concern.. plus every smart developer and designer even knows that AIR will be the future of development for mobile devices.. being the main app platform for Blackberry and having some terrific Android support but also iOS and soon Windows Phone 7.. millions of Flash developers will have plenty of work for mobile platforms. So there's no worry there at all..
Btw.. Flash will utterly destroy everything on the web for games when Molehill arrives and next 10.2 Flash Player and when new StageVideo API is officially out in AIR as well that is using complete super high performance device GPU acceleration to play video. CPU utilization is at zero.. there will be nothing out there like that.
Flash will be full GPU accelerated.. So Flash isn't going anywhere.. we have years and years and years to wait until we get some libraries and engines and (if we get) WebGL full support and overall quality as Flash.
I care about WebM because video should be universal.. for simple stuff you can use video tag and we know what the codec is and it's free and if you need to make a simple web site you can indeed avoid using Flash for that stuff.. it simplifies development process..
WebM and video tag in HTML5 might not ever provide the depth and the ability that Flash can give you if you need to make a full blown player with tons of interactive stuff in it and multiple bitrate detection and alpha channels and all kinds of stuff.. so in my eyes HTML5 video is not really even a competition to Flash in that regard..
This is why I want WebM to succeed.. it's just a smart thing to do and we don't have to pay anyone anything (not creators nor users).
- And no pay means creation doesnt get stifled so much.deathboy