{"id":129,"date":"2007-02-15T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2007-02-15T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T15:36:47","slug":"microsoft-soapbox-uses-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/129-microsoft-soapbox-uses-flash.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Soapbox uses Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took a quick look at <a href=\"http:\/\/soapbox.msn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Soapbox<\/a> which seems to be a me-too version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I noticed was the absence of any content I wanted to view, whereas YouTube is really dangerous if you want to avoid distraction. That will change if the service is popular; but I&#8217;m not clear why someone would use Microsoft&#8217;s service instead of YouTube which gets the traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing I noticed is that Microsoft is using Flash for these videos,&nbsp;as does YouTube. I gave it a cross-platform test, and was able to use the site on the Mac with Safari and on Linux with FireFox, so kudos to Microsoft for that. I&#8217;m puzzled though, because the system requirements state Windows Media Player 9 as well as Flash 8, and Windows Media Player 9 isn&#8217;t available for Linux. Nevertheless, it works.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;m surprised that Microsoft isn&#8217;t using SoapBox to show off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msdn.com\/wpfe\" target=\"_blank\">WPF\/E<\/a>. I appreciate that this is still in beta, but then so is Soapbox. Does Microsoft not intend to use its cross-platform, video-capable solution for its own site? Or will it transition in future?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:aee51b07-7a3f-41f9-808d-7acdb6d1d7fd\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/wpfe\" rel=\"tag\">wpfe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/flash\" rel=\"tag\">flash<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/soapbox\" rel=\"tag\">soapbox<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a quick look at Microsoft Soapbox which seems to be a me-too version of YouTube. The first thing I noticed was the absence of any content I wanted to view, whereas YouTube is really dangerous if you want to avoid distraction. That will change if the service is popular; but I&#8217;m not clear why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/129-microsoft-soapbox-uses-flash.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Soapbox uses Flash<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,58,79,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-multimedia","category-software","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}