In addition to earlier statements from Apple and Microsoft, Opera has now stepped into the Flash debate...
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"Today's internet content is dependant on Flash," said Grønvold. "If you remove Flash you do not have today's internet.
"We are trying to give the best internet experience for our users therefore we need Flash - there is no way to beat around that bush."
"But at Opera we say that the future of the web is open web standards and Flash is not an open web standards technology.
"Flash does have its purposes and will have its purposes, the same as [Microsoft's] Silverlight and others, especially for dynamic content.
"But flash as a video container makes very little sense for CPU, WiFi battery usage etcetera – you can cook an egg on [devices] once you start running Flash on them and there's a reason for that."
http://www.techradar.com/news/intern...rgument-687597
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Also... in addition to the numerous other high-profile sites that have dumped Flash in favour of HTML5, next on the list is Scribd.
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“We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.”
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/05/scribd-html5
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