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		tolmasky on Sept 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Promise of the Web So you honestly never saw the benefit in having video on the web thanks to Flash? Remember that even today HTML 5 video is not fully supported.

icebraining on Sept 23, 2011 [–]

I think Flash gave browsers the 'excuse' to postpone the implementation of a real standard solution, that we're only know seeing the first steps of.

I bet we'd have seen the video tag on browsers years ago if Flash wasn't there with a poor (GPU acceleration only last year, FFS!) but working solution.

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