Samizdata - 5:52 pm on Sep 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

What kind of a (flash) player is on your doo-wop site?

Those are produced with Flash 8 (from a QuickTime source), similar to YouTube.

Flash is probably the best way to go for most people at the moment as it is installed on the largest number of computers - and unlike some of the others does not try to make itself the default media player (a perennial problem for Windows users when they install RealPlayer). I did not mention Silverlight, which I have never seen in action.

The web changes fast and it is always difficult to predict what will catch on, but I have been using Mp4 for several years and like the fact that it also works on many handheld devices. Once the web-enabled iPod hits the stores it may become more important.

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments.