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    Future of the Web

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    Watching the grand convergence of the desktop, the server, devices, and the Web. Topics addressed include events and emerging trends in universal interoperability, standards development, SOA, Clouds, Web-Stacks, RIA run-times, etc.

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Two areas where Flash can offer real value is in displaying and packaging video on the web, and in serving as a Java replacement for developing applets. Here's a look at how Adobe is working to defend its strengths in the face of competition, and how its efforts to open the Flash specification in the Open Screen Project play into these efforts.

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proprietary FLV video container format

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more advanced and open H.264 video codec

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Apple's ability to disrupt the status quo in video playback is evident in its deal with Google to vend YouTube videos to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV as straight H.264 rather than Google's existing mix of a Flash-based player and its archaic GVI file format based upon AVI.

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As Apple's hardware-based H.264 playback in mobile devices begins to define how to reach affluent customers with content, Flash will increasingly lose any allure on the PC desktop as well, as developers won't want to target PCs and mobiles using two different systems.

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on 2008-06-18 by garyedwards

Wow. What an insight. If Apple can push Flash aside with the open standard H.265, they will perhaps do the same to Adobe RiA (AiR-Flex-Flash) with the rapidly emerging WebKit-SproutCore JavaScript library!

Adobe seems to be hoping that nobody notices these problems and that its vigilant marketing efforts can entrance the public into thinking that a drawing app extended into an animation tool and then retrofitted into a monstrous hack of a development platform is a superior technology basis for building web apps compared to the use of modern open standards created expressly to promote true interoperability by design rather than retroactively.

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on 2008-06-18 by garyedwards

Here's one for the mighty marbux and the Universal Interoperability Council! If Adobe and Microsoft are successful with their proprietary RiA approaches for creating highly interactive, dynamic web applicaitons, they will break the Open Web. If Apple and Google succeed with their open standards - open source RiA approach (WebKit-SproutCore-GWT), the future of the Web will be open. Where is the UiC on this? Hummmm?