[geeks] iPad - NOT a 'Miss' for me I'm afraid

[Jonathan Groll]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:25:08PM -0500, nate at portents.com wrote:
>And Apple is best-served by drawing a line in the sand to stop Adobe from
>taking over web standards with their lazy, badly written, poorly
>optimized, security-hole-ridden Flash platform.  Apple can do better
>performance video playback using optimized APIs on solid drivers to do GPU
>assisted video decode in a more secure way and save more battery life than
>any Adobe plugin solution ever could.
>
Amen to that. Many broken flash players will remain on many sites for
a long time to come, but youtube's html5 move is a step in the right
direction:
http://www.youtube.com/html5

Cheers,
Jonathan