
Standards help make the world go round. Unfortunately, standards are not always so standard and don’t always work everywhere.
Take audio and video files on web site pages. Except for Flash files, many audio and video files are created for Windows users, and leave Mac users out in the cold. Enter Flip4Mac. It’s like sticking Windows Media Player in your Mac.
The computer world has a bunch of audio and video player standards. Windows Video Player. RealNetworks. Flash. QuickTime from Apple. Flash, annoying though it.... (excerpted).
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