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iPad and freesounds
Started July 2nd, 2010 · 10 replies · Latest reply by misogenisnt 15 years, 6 months ago
Looks like the play sound feature on freesound won't work with mobile devices! (at least not wit safari on my iPad)
Cheers
David
You will need to jailbreak an iPad to install Flash, it is a closed environment straight from the box. Steve Jobs shooting himself in the foot ?
I suppose Freesound uses it because it is a common thing. That doesn't make it good though, back in the days VHS was just about the worst format available, yet that became the most popular one (we all know why...).
Flash is slow, annoying, another security risk and uses way too many resources. It works good on Freesound because it uses small scripts, but I'm having heaps of problems, with just Flash, on other websites, such as YouTube, where half of the time it just doesn't respond to my clicking.
Right now there are hardly other options, but they do exist. Java for example, even though that's not my fav either. I'm hoping with HTML5 there will be some implementations for a Flashless internet.
Well, if flash is as bad as Mr. Jobs indicate, he really should set some ships in the sea, and develop something better. But the only ones doing something about it seems to be google and MS. I'm thinking about the implementation of videos/media in HTML5, that google is developing, and silversomething, the MS pendant to flash.
To say it short, Jobs delivers critisism, but no way near the constructive kind. He doesn't even try to compensate. IMHO, i think he's living in a dreamworld!
fotoshop
Google is not the one developing HTML5.
Not they're not developing HTML5, but a way to implement media in it!
Microsoft has Silverlight, which is even worse than Flash. I don't know what Google is working on.
Ideally, it shouldn't be a plugin in the way it is now. For example, nobody complains about JPG on websites, because there's nothing to complain about. It's one of the most used formats for storing photos and displaying them on a website. Helped by the img tag in html, developers can rely on them being always displayed in any normal browser (and IE). For video, there isn't one format that's always available. You can work around it by wrapping the video in a Flash applet, but even that is not always available and is sucky in general. One format should just be promoted a standard and browsers should implement that, with controls and UI and everything. I suppose Ogg would be preferred.
