POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : It's about time : Re: It's about time Server Time
8 Jul 2024 07:51:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: It's about time  
From: James Holsenback
Date: 14 Jul 2015 21:48:28
Message: <55a5bbec@news.povray.org>
On 07/14/2015 09:43 PM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:03:45 -0400, James Holsenback wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/14/2015 06:51 PM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>>>> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>>>>> I've been staying away from flash for quite sometime now ... so it's
>>>>> about time
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33520935
>>>>
>>>> Personally, I find this annoying as hell.  I use youtube.  I visit
>>>> sites that have embedded video.  Very few of them use HTML5, and as
>>>> yet, nobody has come up with an alternative that works.
>>>
>>> there's a couple of flash to html5 plugins for firefox and that work
>>> fine (I visit youtube often and they work well) ... true enough though
>>> that there are plenty of sites that haven't seen the light. now perhaps
>>> mozilla's strong arming will prompt a move away from perhaps the most
>>> insecure piece of software on the planet. my comments to bbc's new look
>>> a few months ago included a rant about flash content ... javascript is a
>>> close second.
>>
>> ??? Youtube supports HTML5....
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
>> besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
>
> Only on a very small selection of videos, last I tried it. It was extremely
> buggy and about half of the videos I tried to watch simply wouldn't load.

no such problems for me ... smoothly plays any video's that i've tried


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