Adobe updates Flash with H.264 video

Wow. That's 100% QuickTime Codec. A totally QuickTime wannabe.

H.264 is an industry standard (it's a subset of MPEG-4). The Zune can play it, Sony's Walkman players can play it, and many Mac and Windows programs can play it. This just puts it into Flash so you don't need to wonder whether you've got the necessary software to watch it on a website.

that's the biggest missing portion on my phone: no flash.

"uses the computer's full hardware features to improve playback," tells us we can thank we browsers for further crippling the work of a multi-tasker. At least we know now to veer away from sites like these when doing serious work.

Except that now we'll see ads in these formats, perhaps, more horrifyingly distracting and annoying ads, and when researching products, services, or other databases, we can be sure to see firms that use more flash.

Being in the architecture business, I see my fair share of overly-flash-based sites. Text that's too small to read, animations you're required to sit through to get any where, pages set up to read on the too small or too large resolution screens that either give you too much or too little on a page, not to mention anything but intuitive navigation controls.

Such is the curse of technological advancement on the web. i could be wrong, at least I hope, for the good of us all.