Motion Graphics is the New Search
Monday, May 14th, 2007Mitchell Baker (CEO of firefox) gave a good interview over at APC. Seems Microsoft isn’t the only company looking at breaking the stranglehold that Flash has on motion graphics.
The “Cairo” project, possibly included in the next Firefox browser release, will handle 2D stage based motion graphics. Ya know, like FLASH.
This can’t be good news if you work at Microsoft. First, you show up 10 years too late (i’m talking to you Silverlight), then these open source hippies try to trump you. Mitchel pointed out that they were aiming to open a motion graphics format that was non-proprietary and indexable by search engines.
Strike one up for the hippies! By packaging the rendering engine (i.e. Cairo) with the browser, Firefox will be set to out pace Microsoft in no time.