flash

Now that the future Windows won’t include support for plugins, it’s time to think to change your website and remove Flash.

In Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in Browsers Which Support It John Gruber says: I truly hope to see Flash fade as the de facto standard for embedded web video, and I’m willing to put my markup where my mouth is. Me too, and also for everything else.

It seems Adobe will publish the Flash file-format specification. Maybe now we will get a good and open Flash player on non-i386 Linux systems. The specification for SWF is available on the SWF Technology Center