techcrunchit.com — With Gmail's recently launched video chat, Google is pushing a plugin to provide the browser with multimedia and interactive capabilities, paving the way for their own competitor to Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.
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pritchardNov 14, 2008
@Razak:As a programmer, Flash just didn't do it for me. You can make *apps* with Flex, but making games is another issue I'd need to research. Flash's tools seem geared towards animators rather than programmers.Maybe Google doesn't care. Maybe I just need to learn to deal with Flash's frame-based logic. But I hope game-like app development becomes easier in the future, either through Flash or something else.
moducNov 14, 2008
They should buy Adobe. Also, a player alone won't cut it. They need a very powerful, very easy to use, very flexible IDE/design that comes with it to make it successful.
Closed AccountNov 15, 2008
Well does a browser itself have the capability to do video conferencing and streaming? No? I didn't think so.
rowjimmyNov 15, 2008
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threedee912Dec 29, 2008
@RavatarWell, I don't think much of the general public (meaning 'non-techies') knows that Mozilla formed from the ashes of Netscape...