[LINK] Fwd: Google to launch its own web browser tomorrow

[Paul Bolger]

I'm not sure if I'd call Flash 'correct', but it does allow your
browser to display a couple of popular video formats - flv and mp4.
Marghanita's question was about video and audio formats, and the
answer is that if a browser supports Flash then it will also play
(with the Flash plugin installed) quite a few video and audio formats,
including MP4 with h264/aac - which gives pretty stunning playback
with relatively tiny filesizes.

I think the 'Flash book' format you are referring to is called 'Flash
Paper'. I wouldn't bother with it as there doesn't seem to be an open
source authoring tool and, as you point out, natty page turn sound
effects don't make it a book.



2008/9/3 Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com>:
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> On 03/09/2008, at 6:19 PM, Paul Bolger wrote:
>
>> "Currently, Google Chrome supports the most popular plug-ins necessary
>> to display the Web correctly, including Flash, Acrobat Reader, Java,
>> Windows Media Player, Real Player, QuickTime, and Silverlight."
>
> <devil's advocate>
>
> Since when is displaying the web using Flash or Real Player 'correct'?
>
> [...having just blasted a work colleague for sending me to a website that
> shows 'books' in Flash format, whereby the sound of a page turning
> accompanies the 'page turn', along with the graphics of showing a page
> turning. It might have been fun if only the actual CONTENT was readable (it
> wasn't: too small) or even able to be copied (it wasn't), or otherwise
> manipulated (it wasn't).]
>
> </devil's advocate>
>
> iT
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