Opera Co-founder: "You don't need Flash (for most normal browsing)"

http://www.tweaktown.com Earlier today we attended an Opera Software press briefing here in Taipei to discuss Operas future plans for HTML5, web standards and how they affect consumer electronics and OEMs in Taiwan. The get together was designed to be an early look of what the Norwegian software company intends to show at Computex Taipei 2010 early next month. Håkon Wium Lie, Opera CTO and the father of CSS was there to discuss these topics and for us it was most interesting to hear what Opera thought about Adobe Flash and where it fits in now and in the future.

Jon S. von Tetzchner, Opera Co-founder and he had some interesting thoughts on Flash as well. During the presentation, we were shown the new video tag (created by Opera) which is part of CSS3, a W3C style sheet language web standard that will soon be supported by many web browsers. This new video tag allows you to write a very simple line of code to add a video to your website. It will come down to the individual browser makers to add support for CSS3 powered video playback, but clearly Opera is behind it in a big way. It remains to be seen how much other browser makers will embrace it, but Opera is eagerly optimistic that it will be embraced heavily as they are fully behind open web standards and this one in particular in a big way - at least that was the impression that we got today. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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• HTML5
• CSS
• CSS3
• Adobe
• Flash
• netbooks
• tablets
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[camwilmot]

Update Note - Mr. Jon S. von Tetzchner is no longer CEO of Opera, he is now listed as Co-founder. This was told to us in Chinese, hence the mistake.

[ultimatevideodude]

... Running ubuntu :D

[spidern70]

html5 sux balls!!! flash is needed in every normal social network, every game, even pro photo sites have it.. and u talk shit abt html5? that stupid bug machine, rapidshare has it now. it sux completely and deeply. let this spokesman on video to fack his ass with some powerful vibrator!

[joker4835]

flash is annoying bastard

[IrishEntertainment]

linux PWND

[MigGonzJr]

how do i watch my youtube videos on opera it wont work unless i install adobe flash and i did update it but it still wont work someone help

[drdremos]

Interesting stuff. Will take a long time before sites start removing flash.

[lilfredd1393]

yes what flash does can be done in other languages ,but is anyone doing it?? NO!! that is why flash is needed.. geez, apple and their shit..

[doomtomb3]

@hahaha10001 all he's trying to say is playing video in web browsers using html5. Flash has been the plugin used to play video but now html5 has support for video, you just use a video code and source from a video clip file. .ogg, .mp4, etc.

[hahaha10001]

Hmm...you still need flash to make the flash content, HTML5 only plays flash without the plugin, or...is all what I just said was a bunch of crap?

[cccpkingu]

First speaker was Wium Lie, credit where credit is due.