Microsoft announces IE9 will not support Flash
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
The title of this post is one I found in an article today at V3.co.uk. You can find the whole article here. Lately there’s a lot to do with the Flash player and video on the Internet. I also see a lot of misunderstanding and even some people putting there heads in the ground. Everyone is basically thinking that Flash will disappear from the web. Eventually it probably will, not as fast as we think however.
All the fuss right now is about Flash as Video standard. Because HTML5 has a build in video tag, as it appears now, that plays all different video’s without the need for the Flash plugin. When we look at it that way, Flash will probably disappear. This doesn’t mean however, that Flash won’t be usable anymore. The plugin will still be available, only the usage of it will be limited more and more over the years. And that’s something a lot of people are missing the last few days.
Another interesting post on ZDnet got my attention. There Dana Blankenhorn points out why Microsoft and Apple prefer the H.264 codec instead of other alternatives (like flash). The reason for that you’ll find in the blogpost itself. Doesn’t anybody find that disturbing at all? I sure do, I’m someone who lobby’s for open standards as much as I can. The H.264 codec however is one of the greatest around, so it gives me some mixed feelings.
I think time will tell us (of course) what will happen with all of this. I think Flash will be one of the major plugins the next few years, especially when they create something to load flash in the HTML5 canvas, which is already there in a experimental phase.


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