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Poster:	pegz	Date:	January 25, 2012 05:50:16pm
Forum:	movies	Subject:	Re: new video/audio player 'opt in' is live!

I'm not particularly anti html5, I use it a lot. It's just that, at the moment it has a lot of limitations, no standard formats, and at the moment is definitely not cross browser compatible! No one would object to a new player that works properly, and the option to choose an alternative player is exactly what's needed. What most people object to (me included) is being told that this is going to be it from now on, whether it works on your system or not.
Flash is going to be around for years, people have far to much time and money invested in it to just dump it, and it's just so much more advanced. (Look at sites like http://www.audiotool.com/app . Try doing that in html5!)
Thank you for the 'I prefer flash' link, as long as it stays there until the other player is fully working, then I'm sure we'll all be happy bunnies :-)

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Poster:	tracey pooh	Date:	January 25, 2012 06:21:14pm
Forum:	movies	Subject:	Re: new video/audio player 'opt in' is live!

yay/phew
[group hug]

ok, yes, we plan to leave that option there for a very long time.
agreed, htm5 is great mostly but is not solution for 100% of the setups/situations.

so no worries -- one of the reasons i stalked this particular player, the jwplayer, is because it does *both* htm5 and flash.

i should have made the toggle/preference sooner
my bad for not realizing that -- and in the same sentence, let me thank you and others for bringing that oversight to our attention!

cheers!
-tracey

This post was modified by tracey pooh on 2012-01-26 02:21:14