On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.com wrote:
From what I have seen of that feature, it is going to need a lot more tweaking before it is ready to be rolled out. That said, it could indeed be a useful feature in the future.
As for flash being a nono, what is so wrong with using it for a feature such as this? My only real worry about using it in such a circumstance would be that it would be used liberally on the monobook itself... how about as a gadget?
In this case there isn't much point in discussing flash from a pure technical perspective, since you can already do fairly good animation with simple broadly compatible JS. (and examples of such already exist)
I did one here: http://zerror.com/bin/videolol/
Other than Opera for Nintendo DS, having a JS based video player make no sense.
Anyway this is a discussion for mailto:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org?subject='[OT] Is Flash Evil?'&body=yes
Often people choose binary protocols (like SWF) because it make easier to optimize the filesize. Anything that make lots of request to a server may have a horrible overheat. And you can save a SWF file, and play it offline.