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I think YouTube is the best use of Flash. Do you mean Rich Text Format? It's used by OS X a fair amount. Didn't know Microsoft invented it, neat.

• prakash 18y ago
  microsoft also came up with XMLHttpRequest!
• gaius 18y ago
  The point being that a standard format for documents is a solved problem and has been for years.
  • marketer 18y ago
    It's not that simple. You need a format that can represent any kind of document. Good luck trying to convert a powerpoint with complex shapes and background images into a RTF. There are only two formats that can really do that, while being viewed inside a browser - swf and images.
    • tokenadult 18y ago
      Does anyone want a PowerPoint with complex shapes and background images? http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1 http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0... http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/ http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
      • marketer 18y ago
        Nobody is stopping you from using latex,beamer,and emacs and taking a weekend to finish your slides. But if you want something done in fifteen minutes that looks good, use powerpoint.
        • eru 18y ago
          I am faster using TeX's beamer classes than fighting Powerpoint's UI.
  • jcl 18y ago
    RTF is a good format for editable documents, but it's not such a good format for documents that need to look exactly the same on all platforms. The format that PDF actually reinvents is Postscript.