Scribd has posed a cute cartoon strip that very nicely, and quite devastatingly for lazy ingrate Adobe, explains to their users why they dumped the closed and proprietary plug-in-based Flash for the open and plug-in free HTML5 standard:
Scribd’s full “Scribd in HTML5” page is here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple should link to Scribd’s page on their Apple Hot News and in their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch pages.
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Nice… been surfing sans flash for about 2 weeks now. Never realized how universal this app was, and how much faster my web surfing experience is without it.
Free at last! Free at last! Thank Jobs Almighty, we are free at last!
Nuff said- this cartoon strip should be required reading for all SEC investigators and management.
After AAPL’s last two days on the market, I doubt Steve or any shareholders are smiling today.
Go to the site and go through the explanation! Here’s just one beauty…..(hint, hint, the joke is in the parentheses)……
“All the major ones now support @font-face and Canvas/VML. In fact, 97% of browsers (including IE!) support web fonts.”
No need to worry about a small market dip, obama promised to look into it
When you go to the site, remember that they are talking about switching away from Flash, especially in the last couple of slides.
Brutal!!!
Red: Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Pockettrash,
Steve Jobs is a multi-billionaire. He has more money that you, or I, or anybody not named Obama, Pelosi, or Reid can spend in a lifetime. (Those last three wouldn’t even blink and could do it in a split-second. Besides lying while smiling, they’re also very good at wasting other people’s money.)
Steve Jobs has his priorities right (see his Stanford speech), so it’s very likely that he actually is smiling today despite the short-term vagaries of the markets.
@ First 2010
oh jeez, quit yer whining
The web is going to be so beautiful sooner than later and this is a very good start.
mw = wrong : as in flash for video streaming is WRONG!
Nice seeing the font-face in that document. Well done, Scribd!
@Lefty, “No need to worry about a small market dip, obama promised to look into it.”
He’ll have ACORN do the dirty.
Please take your political opinions elsewhere. There are a number of political sites available on the web, where you can engage in discussions with people who care about what you think.
So what version of IE has @font and uses standard .otf fonts?
2010, interesting that the three names you chose were all Democrats and all currently in office. You never mentioned any of the Repubs who spent us into debt for their own personal benefit for the first eight years of this decade. Wasn’t that also “wasting other people’s money”?
On Topic: It works. It’s fast. It doesn’t overheat my computer. Fantastic!
This is supercute, Apple has to link Scribd’s page and those funny drawings by an amazingly talented painter.
@DLMeyer and 2010 et alia
I will say this about federal politicians and their talk of overspending now vs. before. Who cares? If we are right to be concerned about overspending now, that is the policy issue. If we are not, then so be it. You can blame all the individual politicians you want, both now and then, but it does not weaken the argument that we might be overspending…a lot.
Or to put this another way, and to steal from a former Justice named after hot dogs, wisdom often never comes at all, so it should not be rejected simply because it comes late (or words to that affect). Claiming that someone may be a hypocrite does not advance any argument, or engage it.
Back to my weekend bread-baking…
@First
So that’s about 100 times the time it would have taken the Shrub.
Goodness gracious, when will all you crazy MDN Politicos finally wake up and smell the gianduia? Do any of you (I’m looking at you.. yeah you!) really believe that “your” party is “right” and the other side is “wrong”?
It’s all so… ridiculous. Clearly anyone with a little optical ability and some freely-functioning brain cells can see that both parties have spent us into debt, spun our government out of control, and have no interest whatsoever in putting self-interest (or party interest) aside for even one moment for the better of the nation.
There is no longer leadership, courage, or even basic common sense amongst 90% of our federal elected officials. Even good intentions get suborned by the quagmire in Washington so quickly that you can no longer even recognize them.
But never mind me, if it makes you feel good about yourself then just keep on taking your sledgehammer and whacking the “Pinko Commie Libs” or the “Republicants” or whatever other stupidly clever little witty grade-school put-downs make “your side” look “good”.
Wow… some people just never get past the playground and learn to think for themselves. *End rant*
@blucaso
Well said. The power that has grown in Washington DC over the past 200 years is extremely corruptive and corrosive. Good people sent there find a machine that they must learn to become part of lest they be crushed by it. Our Founders were very suspicious of big governments, but over time the politician class has found ways to extend its influence into more and more of our live. Some good, but a lot of bad too. I like Dennis Prager’s motto, “The bigger the Government, the smaller the Citizen.”
On topic: I read this strip over at Scribd yesterday and found it both enlightening and one of the strongest and most cogent arguments against Flash, presented in a very simply and approachable manner. This should be a primer for everyone on the subject. Please go beyond the couple of frames here on MDN and read the whole series at Scribd. s
@blucaso:
I don’t disagree with your comments, but I’d say that most of the political turmoil, particularly in the last two years, has been about the “rightness” or “wrongness” of one spending program or another (or not).
I have the very tired, very cynical, view that what just about everyone from Kennedy Democrats to Tea Party types think is that overspending or wasteful government programs are simply the ones that don’t benefit them personally. That’s the crux of it all.
What blucaso said, times eleventy.
Darn. Thursday was a huge buying opportunity for Apple Stock. It went down to $199 then jumped the next day to $240. Unfortunately, I only got Proctor and Gamble stock, owning already a lot of Apple Stock. But I didn’t realize the buying opportunity.
Dropping Flash went faster than anyone could have expected. Even MS backed Apple on this. And now how does Adobe look like? Like a little scared dog that’s barking his snout off for no reason… – just because a bigger dog walked past. Was it all worth it? Instead of thinking about a next thing they cried over sth they hadn’t really cared for in the first place.