The state of web multimedia on Linux is pitiful. Proprietary codecs, plug-ins and closed standards are helping to keep Linux a second rate citizen. What Linux needs is not another proprietary framework like Moonlight, but more open standards. Can Google help by making YouTube a Theora-fest?
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By “multimedia” I presume you mean video? Yes, that’s a problem.
For all other aspects of “multimedia”, Canvas has it covered. See the amazing Processing.js library by John Resig of jQuery fame.