Google's Lively Will Be Shut Down

Re:Google's Lively Will Be Shut Down by peter123 on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @09:35PM (#370245)

there were some bad decisions, chief among which was the decision to NOT to use flash as the platform. Kinda the same mistake they made with the original Google Video.

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Re:Google's Lively Will Be Shut Down by axod on Thursday November 20, 2008 @10:06AM (#370633)

Surely these days they could pretty much have used javascript, with canvas etc. No flash==even bigger win.

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Re:Google's Lively Will Be Shut Down by palish on Thursday November 20, 2008 @10:22AM (#370640)

Why?

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Re:Google's Lively Will Be Shut Down by axod on Thursday November 20, 2008 @11:19AM (#370690)

Because the new crop of internet devices don't have flash?

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Re:Google's Lively Will Be Shut Down by teej on Thursday November 20, 2008 @03:28PM (#370965)

And they somehow support Canvas?

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Re:Google's Lively Will Be Shut Down by blasdel on Friday November 21, 2008 @02:56AM (#371646)

Yes. WebKit invented <canvas>.

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