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  Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight 'agenda' | Tech News on ZDNet 

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  By David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, News.com Posted on ZDNet News : Apr 30, 2008 7:21:27 AM Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, ... the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned. Speaking at the Internet World conference in London on Tuesday, Tristan Nitot claimed such applications threaten the open nature of the internet because the companies behind them could "have an agenda". While he conceded that Flash was currently necessary for consistently displaying content such as video, he suggested that the upcoming revision of the HTML specification would make it unnecessary to use proprietary technology. Flash is already used to display multimedia content on many websites. According to Nitot, the Adobe Flash Player is on 98 percent of all PCs in the world. Silverlight is a similar technology, launched by Microsoft last year. Nitot was speaking on the subject of "the dangers of the proprietary web". He described th   [More...] [Less...]

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