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Remember the days when the Web was just a series of interlinking documents containing text and images? No? Well, don’t worry. We’re going to give you a short history lesson. In the mid-nineties most websites contained lots of text and a few images. Then something came along that was destined to change the playing field: the FutureSplash plug-in. Because it was a proprietary plug-in as opposed to a ratified open specification, the debate remains over whether it should have formed such a fundamental part of the Web’s architecture. FutureSplash wasn’t the only one, though; Real Player and QuickTime were among those wanting to join the proprietary plug-in party.
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© 2012 Richard Clark, Oli Studholme, Christopher Murphy and Divya Manian
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Clark, R., Studholme, O., Murphy, C., Manian, D. (2012). Rich Media. In: Beginning HTML5 and CSS3. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2875-2_5
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