On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:39 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is clever-ish:
http://www.atoker.com/blog/2010/02/04/html5-theora-video-codec-for-silverli…
He says there that this will Just Work on ~40% of Windows boxes. Not bad.
Cortado works wherever Java is installed, which is probably quite a
lot more machines -- including Safari on Mac, for instance. If we
used anything non-Java, it would surely be Flash, which has much
greater penetration than Silverlight on all platforms.
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.
Additionally, although cortado will work the Java ~1.1 VM that came
with Navigator 4... it's rather slow except in the latest JVMs. I
expect that a lot of systems with silverlight are not running an
especially modern JVM.
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.