[LINK] Microsoft's Flash

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> 
> stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>> <http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/26/Rich-media-reaches-Microsoft-
>> developers_1.html?source=NLC-AD&cgd=2007-08-02>
>>
>> At Microsoft's MIX 07 conference, the keynote was mostly about 
>> Silverlight.
>>
>> What is Silverlight, and why should we care about it?
>>
>> <http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/why-compelling.aspx>
>>
>> Officially, Silverlight "is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in 
>> for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and 
>> rich interactive applications for the Web."
> 
> [...snip...]
> 
>>
>> But if you like the idea of XAML-based display, or the idea of 
>> programming in managed code, then Silverlight offers a compelling 
>> model for programming the Web client.
> 
> ...more vulnerable crap that runs on the browser and infects the PC.
> 
> 
It was interesting that in her keynote at CEBIT in Sydney in May, the Mozilla 
CEO said security was a key aspect of Firefox. She put up some graphs comparing 
Firefox and Explorer's lag time in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities.

Also, following up on Stephen's earlier posting on HTML 5.

<snip>
 > 3.14.7.1. Video and audio codecs for video elements
 >
 > User agents may support any video and audio codecs and container formats.
 >
 > User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as well
 > as the Ogg container format. [THEORA] [VORBIS] [OGG]
<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/>

My stuff on Linux OGG/Theora/Video Formats is at
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/acs-os-sig.html>
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/creativecommons-fedora-openvide-contest-entry.html>
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/slug-bootcamp-19may2007-videoeditors.shtml>
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/slug-bootcamp-19may2007-knoppix.shtml>

Marghanita
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