On 5 February 2010 21:53, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, Cortado works in more places but there is no reason that BOTH can't be used, extending support to places with silverlight but without Java.
The thirty-second startup time of Java for Cortado makes it unusable, in my experience. Here's to Firefox 3.5.
Flash isn't something in the running because you still need to be using encumbered media formats to use it... unless you're only playing audio: There are several independent Vorbis implementations for the flash virtual machine, no video codecs yet, and sadly the flash architecture is no where near as nice as the silverlight one for remote-loaded codecs so you have to completely reinvent all the media infrastructure.
Indeed. What's the performance of the Flash ActiveScript Theora decoder like? Horrible, or just bad?
- d.