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

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Paul Bolger wrote:
> 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 was trying to ascertain,  whether they had incorporated open format/open
source Ogg/Theora/Vorbis as Firefox has.

I would interpret "supports the most popular plug-ins" as you download the 
plugins. I am surprised they had to qualify it with "most".

> 
> 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>:
>> 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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