Re: FLASH: W3C

[Joe Crawford]

> since macromedia is joining the W3C i see the possibility for a vector

> standard. do someone know the steps macromedia has taken to make .swf a

> part of the W3C standards ?


Flash has gained wide acceptance. Inclusion with NN4.06, 4.5b1, transparent

integration with Windows IE.


>From the W3C site:


   " Closed proprietary vector formats are proliferating on the

     Web, generally using plug-ins. These formats suffer from 

     lack of support in content creation tools and lack of 

     cross-platform support. There is increasing interest

     in a useful, interoperable, ubiquitouis, Web-oriented,

     open format expressed in XML which would be independent

     of any particular renderer or platform.

   "


Of course, from the w3c point of view, Flash still has the drawbacks of a

plug-in. But the openness of the format virtually assures that more tools

which create flash will be forthcoming. As for cross platform support - that

is improving, but Flash still is best on Wintel or Macintosh.


HTML 4.0 provides the <OBJECT> tag for including multimedia stuff like this,

and in that sense using flash *is* a standard. It's not as pure as the <H1> or

<P> tag, but it's there.


For further discussion of standards on the web, see http://www.webstandards.org/


  Joe

 

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