Now, people have mostly realized that Flash is annoying, presents barriers to accessibility, and breaks the standard behaviour of the web. In the beginning, Flash was used for all sorts of things, and people loved to build websites completely in flash, and offer all sorts of crazy animation gimicks. Really unless Youtube or something switches I won’t bother ever installing it. I’ve yet to encounter any site that uses silverlight outside of microsoft in my normal browsing. If Google goes bankrupt over Youtube’s bandwidth costs, it’s certainly not because of the overhead of dropped connections. Note to movie comps: Allowing me to save trailers to hd is not the first step in a chain of events that will lead to me downloading all your movies and stealing cars to finance my crack addiction (we know those two go hand in hand). One of the great things about Flash is that you can save the vids. This can save a lot of bandwidth.Īnother “feature” I hate. One more thing - servers can be set to send only a few seconds of video in advance of your current ‘position’ in the stream and will stop sending the data if connection breaks. Better you see the end of the 100m 10sec later than the rest of the world, instead of viewing it at 128×32 pixels. It does, you just get gradually de-live-d =). And don’t tell me that doesn’t work with live events. I’ll just pause the video, read something else and come back 5 mins later. If a server’s too slow I don’t want it to downgrade me to stamp-sized video. It is a great feature that they demonstrated.Īnd I’ll be happy never to see that “feature” in the wild. Can Flash adjust video quality on the fly based on your connection speed? Silverlight can.
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