Google supports Adobe Flash, and has dropped support for Google's implementation of H.264 inside Chrome. One is a plugin. One was not.
I agree with your comment, and I find the Flash/H.264/Chrome argument to be childish at best.
I agree with your comment, and I find the Flash/H.264/Chrome argument to be childish at best.
However if we're talking "childish", then the "Plugins! I thought the point of HTML5 was to avoid plugins" argument wins by a mile. People, including Google, have been pushing HTML5 via various plugins, fallbacks and shims for a good while (e.g. Chrome Frame, Google Gears, Flash Vorbis decode, Java Theora decode etc.)
Which doesn't challenge anything I said. In fact, you can remove plugins from you browser, including Flash, right now.
So Much For Standards, Google Says WebM Plugins Coming Soon For Safari And IE9
Sorry for the confusion.
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The big distinction here is that it will be native to the browser because IE and safari use whatever codecs are in the OS instead of providing their own.