Good points. I think there might be space for open source solutions here as well as standardization. Would be silly if after all that fight over "bad proprieta

Good points. I think there might be space for open source solutions here as well as standardization. Would be silly if after all that fight over "bad proprietary Flash" we turned around and made every website depend on some proprietary streaming technology. I bet over time it will evolve into some open web standard type thing. And if it's an open standard then you can have multiple vendors. And for some of them support for plugins might become a distinguishing feature. Some might even have that built-in. But you might be right too, in which case we're pretty doomed.