Apple 1 - 0 Adobe: Virgin America Ditches Adobe Flash!

As the battle between HTML5 and Adobe Flash continues to heat up, Virgin America has chosen a side: their brand new web site design ditches Flash in favor of HTML.

…thor”"How does any web browser company decide which to support?”"I would assume they add support for the method they feel works best. - The ’standards’ are not defined first, and then implemented by the browsers, it’s the other way around. - Granted, the W3C may publish a ‘proposed’ standard, like the HTML5 draft, but what actually becomes the standard is the result of trial-and-error by the browser creators.Each browser creating their own version of an “idea” or a proposed method is not a bad thing. It allows them - and us - to test various implementations and figure out what should, and should not, be included in the final, standard, method.O, and I would also like to point out my dislike of Adobe Flash. A proprietary, 3′rd party extension should not have such a “required” aura about it on a the web. Just look at the problems it is causing the Unix, and other non-Windows, users to see why. - If Adobe had any decency at all, they would open-source the Flash player. Michael CarranoCertainly the two can exist…

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