[Noisebridge-discuss] Embedding ogg audio into a web page?

[Tom Longson (nym)]

In the serious world of web development you look at your audience, and
figure out how to best serve them. Sometimes that means doing stupid things
like zoom:1 to make sure Internet Explorer 6 doesn't play peakaboo with your
HTML. Sometimes that means using flash because it is used by most everyone
and for whatever reason is widely adopted.

In all cases, you should attempt to degrade gracefully. We can all bitch
about the few who get the short end of the stick, but when you're trying to
reach an audience, someone almost always is going to get the short end of
the stick if you want to do something more rich and dynamic than plain text.

Cheers,
Tom Longson (nym)
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Leif Ryge <leif at synthesize.us> wrote:

> Tom Longson (nym) wrote:
> > I recommend either a) supporting just a flash player since all web
> > browsers like Flash (except for the .001% who think lynx is the best way
> > to surf the web).
>
> You're breaking the web. Stop that. Flash is software monoculture; it is
> the only piece of software who's bugs affect "everyone". Except it isn't
> really everyone; it is actually a lot more than 0.001% of people who can
> not run flash because Adobe doesn't support their platform. The web is a
> wonderful cross platform open thing and by repeating this nonsense about
> flash having 99.999% penetration you contribute to proliferation of suck
> and you should stop. Web browsers don't "support" flash, it is the other
> way around. There are tons of places where you can run Firefox but can't
> run flash. This rant brought to you by PowerPC, x86_64, MIPS, and ARM :(
> ~leif
> ps. Yes I know there is flash on Linux x86_64 now, and some ARM Linuxes.
>
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