Do web pages have to use Flash to be "interactive?" - I think the
answer is a definitive "no." You can use bit-mapped images, text
hrefs, etc. INMHO, neither do QuickTime movies. In a wired movie you
can still have lots of interactivity with bitmaps, text, QTVR,
chapter tracks, etc. Flash is nice, but isn't a requirement for
interactivity. You make it sound like without Flash there can't be
interactivity, and that simply is not true. Authoring tools like
eZedia QTi, LiveStage, GoLive and Metadata Hootenany all support
these capabilities without any requirement for Flash.
As mentioned on this thread already, there is a decent chance that
Flash was disabled not to "kill off Quicktime except for .mp4 / AAC
movies for iTunes" but because of security issues. Would you rather
have a potential security hole?
There is also potential for beefing up the nascent interactive
features in mpeg-4/3gp in QT. There is already support for clickable
urls, chapters and text (via 3gpp text). I would be encouraged by
continued development of interactivity in mpeg-4/3gp in the future.
On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:
It think it's pretty easy to interpret this action as the final
nail in the coffin for Flash track support.
And given the huge amount of bad PR this has generated among
customers and the enormous numbers of man hours of support needed
to work around it - I doubt the words "Quicktime and Interactive"
will ever be uttered again by previous QuickTime supporter /
developers.
So if Apple's idea was to kill off Quicktime except for .mp4 / AAC
movies for iTunes -congratulations mission accomplished, they
should be very proud of themselves.
Guess I'll go read up on Flash programming and buy a Windows /
Linux box.
Milton J. Aupperle
President
ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting
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On 15-Sep-06, at 8:19 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
At 10:15 AM -0400 9/15/06, Guillaume Iacino wrote:
I would recommend any developer affected to contact Apple and
explain how this change impacts your business and clients. Please
email email@hidden and any Apple contact you might have.
It's been amazing to see the amount of discussion there has been
on different lists. I sometimes wonder if Apple don't update Flash
support past Flash 5 because they think nobody uses Flash tracks!
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