San Jose Mercury News: Flash continues to grow as the platform for sharing videos online–whether archived or live streams.
I’ve adopted Flash for screencasts too. It’s fast, easy enough to embed in a web page, and available on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Further, Windows Media Player (WMP) and QuickTime both are “thick” experiences. QuickTime pitches you to upgrade (same with RealNetworks’ products) and WMP is just as much about other stuff as simply watching a short movie on the Internet.
To me, this is one more example of how browser technology has lagged terribly in recent years. Why isn’t video playback a feature of a browser? Why is it Flash based? Video should be a primitive, plain and simple.