Two new browser plugins, partying like it’s 1999
Summary
Existing browser games are successful because they fit into social networking and other sites that people already use, and because they stick with Flash—a plugin that virtually everyone has already, even on corporate desktops and other restricted environments. The latest version of the Xiph.org codec pack for Windows includes an experimental IE plugin that brings limited support for the HTML 5 tag to Internet Explorer. The plugin is currently only branded a "Technology Preview," too; it presently lacks virtually any features above and beyond playing video, including basics like offering playback controls. Flash gets a pass due to legacy and being the only widely deployed solution that can do the kind of thing it does (supporting rich interactivity, animation, audio and video, webcams and microphones), with Silverlight and perhaps Java the nearest also-rans, but anything else demanding a browser plugin? The trend is clearly towards extending HTML to provide these capabilities, not proprietary browser extension mechanisms, which makes producing a new plugin today quite an extraordinary thing to do.
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