Hulu stepped into the Adobe-Apple war Thursday with the announcement that it’s sticking to Flash for now. “We continue to monitor developments on HTML5, but as of now it doesn’t yet meet all of our customer needs,” Hulu VP of Product Eugene Wei wrote on the company’s blog. Wei also announced updates to Hulu’s video player and other features. Hulu’s guiding principle for selecting technology is whether or not it best serves the needs of its key customers, its viewers, its content partners, and its advertisers, according to Wei.
Seriously though, the #1 reason a lot of us hate flash is that: A) its a plugin, so it mucks with almost every damn thing you install it in. Just playing one video under Firefox causes memory to get swallowed, which then lags the entire system, and never gets freed, until you close the browser. And then, in some cases its been known to freeze the client, appearing closed, but still in the "process list" on my system. B) Not everything, or every place that you might want video **supports** plugins. A good example being something like the Second Life client. V2.0 is adding "media on prim, including web pages", but it **still** doesn't support a way to install Flash and other plugins. And why would you want to? The client already uses the GPU massively, already uses more memory than a browser, and already has a mess of other issues. Tacking in some third party plugin, written by people that have shown **no** interest in either providing it to everyone (so, if you where using the Linux SL client, for example...), nor any desire to truly work with anyone to make it, a) not hog memory, b) gracefully unload, or c) not screw up the machines stability when used.
Well, Hulu will just be one more site that doesn't grasp why people want to get away from Adobe, and its not just BS DRM, it all the other stuff they list, which is either inaccurate, or just flat out wrong, like claiming its "more stable".
Hulu to Keep the Flash Dance Going
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 14, 2010 11:36 AMHulu stepped into the Adobe-Apple war Thursday with the announcement that it’s sticking to Flash for now. “We continue to monitor developments on HTML5, but as of now it doesn’t yet meet all of our customer needs,” Hulu VP of Product Eugene Wei wrote on the company’s blog. Wei also announced updates to Hulu’s video player and other features. Hulu’s guiding principle for selecting technology is whether or not it best serves the needs of its key customers, its viewers, its content partners, and its advertisers, according to Wei.
Well, Hulu will just be one more site that doesn't grasp why people want to get away from Adobe, and its not just BS DRM, it all the other stuff they list, which is either inaccurate, or just flat out wrong, like claiming its "more stable".