...except for Chrome Frame. Right? That one's OK, 'cuz it's from Google, and all open-standard-ish.

</sarcasm>

FTFY

> Flash was introduced here because it just works.

Even MossPuppet agrees with you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZctLzH7EptA

Really, HTML5 video is a no-go until the browser vendors can agree on a codec, and that ain't gonna happen anytime soon... Mozilla will never go for H.264 due to licensing concerns, Apple has no incentive to go with anything else (since their hardware supports it directly), Microsoft has its own VC.1 codec they are still vainly pushing...

[citation needed]

Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop... all about as web-standard-supporting as it gets.

Flash's ActionScript3 was spec'ed to an early draft of the (sadly torpedoed) EcmaScript4 spec.

Nah, more likely it's because Adobe is a company that it's currently fashionable to bash in the open-source community, and on Slashdot in particular.

And it's *definitely* unfashionable to say good things about Flash -- heavens, it's not open source!

Flash was a target long before it even reached anything approaching 95% ubiquity in the marketplace

[citation needed]

Flash has been at 95%+ penetration for YEARS now.

> Adobe is pretty much at the top of the list for exploits

Well duh. Flash is on, what, 95%+ of all desktop web-browsing systems. When Windows + IE ruled the web-browsing world, criminals looked for exploits there. Now that other browsers and OS versions are more popular, Flash is a more attractive lowest-common-denominator.

I don't want to sync multiple libraries... I want a single library that I can share between machines.

C'mon, Apple, this ain't rocket science!

VP6 runs adequately on punier cpus

There is no codec that will run adequately on typical smartphone CPUs of today, VP6 included.

Acceptable video performance requires hardware acceleration.

Hardware for running H.264 is commonly available.

AFAIK there is no commodity hardware available for On2 codecs.

That's gotta be Tom Strong, or perhaps the Five Swell Guys...

Yeah, it's so fashionable to lambast Flash Video now.

Think back to the day before Flash Video: your choices were

-- WMV (awful Mac support)
-- Quicktime (awful Windows support)
-- RealVideo (awful, period)

So please. Stop the hate.

Bogus, debunked here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2186786/

[Citation Needed]

If closed source was ever done fully, we'd all be using IE 6 or something, no wouldn't we?

...and that's why GIMP has crushed Photoshop.

Wait, what?

Fuck you, Unix and Unix-like operating systems! Die already!

(Hey, similar sentiments got the parent modded as "Insightful"... surely I'll get the same respect for my reasoned opinion?)