Flash alternatives

[Luke -Jr]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 14:53:10 you wrote:
> I think you need to define what you mean by HTML.
> http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/b/blink.htm

It doesn't work that way. HTML is well-defined: http://www.w3.org/html/

> It has in fact been supported by Netscape, it was supported in IE4 (and I
> believe phased out after that). 

Irrelevant.

> It is part of the css1 standard (text-decoration: blink). 

"text-decoration" is a CSS attribute, not a HTML element.

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 15:03:56 you wrote:
> You still need a renderer to display the video - whether you embed a java
> object, a flash object, a Windows Media Player object, etc...you're still
> going to leave out a segment of the crowd.  No matter what method you chose
> you're still using a proprietary plugin - you just have to choose the one
> you think the most people will have.  I think that's flash.

Poor implementation is not my concern. An embedded video file is standard HTML 
and works just fine as-is in Konqueror with MPlayer Plugin.