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Flash was the standard. Sure, you could use something else, but that something else most likely worked for less viewers. And the plugin-gap is real -- asking us
by betterth 14y ago
Flash was the standard. Sure, you could use something else, but that something else most likely worked for less viewers. And the plugin-gap is real -- asking users to install a plugin causes some users to skip and move on.
To ignore the previous ubiquity of Flash is absurd.
- franzus 14y agoWell, but that's not a lock in. It's just the incompetence of Adobe's competition to make an alternative.