Anyone who has ever used the internet to stream a video has probably (but not for sure) used Flash. Flash is a multimedia platform used to show videos, display animation, and create interactivity on a web site. While its dominance may soon change, due to a new addition to the HTML language (the syntax used to code web pages) called the video tag, for now, it will continue to remain the dominant facilitator of video streams across the web.As it stands today, Flash is not widely available on mobile devices (except on some devices using Skyfire) due to its robust, bandwidth eating, and power hungry nature. That is all about to change with the recent announcement of Flash 10 coming to the Google Android, Palm WebOS, and Windows Mobile phone operating systems in October. Other phone operating systems, such as iPhone OS and BlackBerry OS, are sure to follow suit soon after.
This is very exciting news for the mobile world. Currently, many smartphones use a "YouTube" application in order to stream videos from YouTube. When you visit YouTube's site and try to play a video, your phone switches to this special application in order to play it. While it's a nice feature, it's only a half-baked workaround and does not work for all sites across the web. The addition of Flash support for mobile phone platforms is going to change the way we think of browsing the web on our phones. No longer will we think, "Oh man, it's such a pain to access this site on my phone." In October, the world will usher in a new era--an era of embedded video in the mobile browser.
I can't wait to get myself an Android phone when it finally comes out on Sprint. I've been waiting...
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