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Well, it might help the battery issue, but it couldn't solve it unless the video playback was just as efficiently hardware-accelerated as the native implementat
by pohl 16y ago
Well, it might help the battery issue, but it couldn't solve it unless the video playback was just as efficiently hardware-accelerated as the native implementation. You're also introducing a user experience cost of N additional taps for an afternoon watching N flash videos.
The ideal sweet spot is for proprietary plugins to vacate all browsers post haste.
- dbrannan 16y agoTake a good look at the number of plugins you are already running. If you are using Chrome type in about:plugins in the URL. I think you might be surprised. I see many people have this hate towards Flash because it is a plug-in, but what about QuickTime, Silverlight, and Java? Plug-ins exist to extend the functionality of our browsers and let's face it, HTML does not do everything.
- ootachi 16y agoIn most cases, those plugins are there because some other app put them there, not because they're actually used. The most notable exception is probably Silverlight for Netflix.