At 7:58 AM -0700 9/14/06, Roger Howard wrote:
>Just speculating of course, but it seems a bit more likely to me than a
>grander conspiracy to dump interactivity. Perhaps even this was mainly
>intended to limit the Quicktime plugin being used to play Flash content,
>since most standalone Flash content nowadays wouldn't even work with the
>QT plugin... it could be a case of unintended consequences and poor
>testing (wouldn't be the first time we've seen such breakage in features
>not core to Apple's focus but still used by some).
<sad>
Instead of "kniffing the baby", Apple seems to be slowly "starving the mature adult" from within.
Disabling Flash in QuickTime means that if there was any reason to make an interactive QuickTime, it's all gone now.
Since QuickTime had support for Flash, it made creating dynamic content by mixing Flash's vector based animation and images with great quality QuickTime video and QTVR a really powerful mix, that even today Flash cannot do.
It's clear now that QuickTime for deployment is turning into another MPEG-4 player and that's it. It's all about support for Final Cut Pro now (editing and authoring - not deployment). This is too bad, specially that now QuickTime seems to have a much better installed base, which was the main entry barrier before iTunes.
</sad>
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francesco schiavon
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