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Apple's plan to free itself from Flash hits a snag

Remember the brave band of corporations that was going to bring us to a brave new world of open standards audio and video? Yeah, about that.

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I agree, HTML 5 is the future.

In much the same way I consider the iPhone the future, i.e. something I have no intention of using right now.
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Please correct misquote?

re: "This clearly is aimed right at proprietary Web video solutions like Flash and Silverlight, and Adobe's CEO snidely referred to the plotters as 'a consortium of minority browser vendors.'"

hmm, that's not accurate... can you correct the text, please, before it goes out into syndication and gets taken as gospel? Thanks.

Here are the source links:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2009/06/adobe_on_html5.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2009/06/followup_on_last_post.html

tx, jd/adobe
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Sorry about that, John -- I

Sorry about that, John -- I have attributed the quote to you now, which is I think accurate? I could have sworn that the source I saw the quote in originally attributed it to Adobe's CEO, but it doesn't anymore and I may have misread it.
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No worries, thanks for the

No worries, thanks for the rewrite, Josh! (Yes, I also saw a few news articles with surprising details.... ;-)

tx, jd/adobe
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