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by jdowdell 17y ago
Precisely. QuickTime on Macs can use hardware-based video decompression. If Apple allowed browser plugins to move video-decompression out of the CPU too, then that would be great.
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Too bad the original post doesn't accept comments. Yes, Mac performance can be an extra challenge -- think of discussions in 3D, video-editing, or gaming communities. Things get more complicated when you're in a browser -- particularly on a
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by jdowdell 17y ago
"GeneralMaximus" is difficult to help, because s/he assumes that their abnormal Linux performance is normal, and is due to the de facto standard rather than to individual configuration. (Apple APIs let QuickTime use hardware decompression.
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by jdowdell 17y ago
System-level video decoders were used in Macromedia Director during multimedia and early Internet days, but developers found it didn't work very well... you had to choose an architecture(s), then had to test for its presence and do version-
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Thomas Ptacek, why the odd unproofed assertion? Seems counter to the Salesforce, RIM etc trends. (I appreciate the point you made above about font creators feeling fairly compensated for use of their creations though, thanks.)
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by jdowdell 17y ago
It's much easier to address "What should I do if a 16x16px graphic crashes?" than it is to wade through all the extra text surrounding it....
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by jdowdell 17y ago
It's amazing how many reprints this blog-item is getting, considering that the original source material was only a single ambiguous sentence: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Sep/0049...
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Yes, Flash Player has sent text to the big two (JAWS and WindowEyez) since 2002 or so, and is also supporting an opensource screenreader effort: http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2009/08/adobe_supports_... (I think Apple may have final
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by jdowdell 17y ago
In such a hypothetical scenario, Adobe would also be screwed. Flash reconciles various needs, from indy creatives to high-budget publishers to ordinary consumers to videographers to anyone seeking a means to communicate their beyond-text id
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Yes. There have been past projects (if memory serves, Jaguar and BMWs, a yacht, Chumby, etc), but most of the action is now occurring in the next-generation cross-device Player, at openscreenproject.org.
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Adobe did testing across the CS4 line atop the new Apple OS. There are a few minor issues documented... see blogs.adobe.com or individual product support pages. Most people find it just works. It's quite possible that someone has a minority
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by jdowdell 17y ago
I'd be thrilled if browsers didn't play Flash with worse performance than standalone Projectors do.... ;-)
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by jdowdell 17y ago
There are many, many examples, and I'm not sure what you've seen, what you seek to see. ("3D wireframe of a real object"?) There are various libraries to make different types of "3D" faster to develop in Flash. Each has their proponents, th
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Flash has been on Linux longer than you think: http://web.archive.org/web/20000815054538/www.macromedia.com... Player 8 skipped Linux because it was an interim release with a better graphics engine, and was replaced shortly by Player 9 wi
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by jdowdell 17y ago
<em>"Why is it not accessible when I right-click a Flash movie?"</em> It is... the context menu always holds at minimum a "Settings" link. For "Why is it on a webpage instead of in the SWF?", it's because Flash is part of a
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by jdowdell 17y ago
I always liked "Theses on Groucho Marxism" better: http://www.collectivereinventions.org/Archives/pages/theses_...
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Some of above Twitter problems bum me out too. But a different problem is a tweet you can't figure out on its own -- where you have to click a hidden link, or pull up someone else's conversation to figure out what the first message is sayin
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by jdowdell 17y ago
I would have commented there, but comments seem disabled.... <em>"The point here is that we can't allow such a fundamental piece to the future of the Internet rely on plugins."</em> He doesn't establish this conclusion. Rece
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by jdowdell 17y ago
No, most of what was said there is incorrect.
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Less "scare quotes", more recognition of the nominalization being used. Much of the WhatWG evangelism tries to portray these proposals as a done deal, using phrases like "the HTML 5 standard". But none of us today know how that process will
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by jdowdell 17y ago
[ Original poster here ] The stance that "images have no place on the Web" is the oldest of the lot, dating back to Netscape 2.0 days... it's hard to remember or even believe now, but people did rail against the IMG tag. Back in the late 90
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by jdowdell 17y ago
The post reacted against the Google employee's phrasing, and compared current YouTube auto-compression to custom Theora compression. But it has since been misread by many as comparing the codecs and their capabilities. Chris Di Bona was ess
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by jdowdell 17y ago
FAQ item... w3schools.com uses a self-selected sample, and most other surveys show IE still above 60% audience share. I agree with you, though, that it's weird to discriminate against such large audiences. jd/adobe
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Funny comments here. If you're actually curious about why the developer used Flash for the front-end, then his info here: http://runpee.com/blog/72_why-flash Basically, the rap is that running one set of HTML/JS/CSS instructions atop vari
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by jdowdell 17y ago
"ratsbane" agrees with "pj", and the world can do nought but comply.... ;-) People do choose to install Adobe Flash into their varied browsers, and they do so successfully and rapidly. It is a real capability in the world today. For every a
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Yes, there are frequency lists. This is the most useful, easiest-to-carry one I've found so far: http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-English-Frequency-Dictionary-M... Access to the official vocabulary classifications is through the HSK program:
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Glad you like it. The new Text Layout Framework does a whole lot more too... it brings the classic Adobe digital-text expertise right into 98% of the world's current browsers. Veronique Brossier has a good intro to it all: http://www.insid
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by jdowdell 17y ago
We're asking the browser vendors to expose their right-click events to plugins, to provide an API to opening up in a new tab, to open up their cookie preferences so that plugins can integrate user choice, etc. There's no need to reflexively
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by jdowdell 18y ago
People speak in binary on support for CANVAS, SVG, CSS etc -- "this browser has CANVAS support", "that browser doesn't have CANVAS support". They should actually be speaking of "what level of CANVAS support", because there are different imp
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by jdowdell 18y ago
Attempting to synopsize the core concern again: "So, if we changed that old headline to reflect the bodytext's 'Internet-enabled desktops', would you be satisfied then?" tx, jd/adobe

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