Giveaway of the Day Forums

1. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/04/30/1037230/Microsoft-Tips-the-Scale-In-Favor-of-HTML-5

   Microsoft Tips the Scale In Favor of HTML 5

   "Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, has announced that IE9 will use only the H.264 standard to play HTML 5 video. Microsoft seems to have become very committed to HTML 5, while Flash loses even more ground. The announcement came the same day Steve Jobs detailed why Apple does not accept Flash on iPhone and iPad."

   http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/29/html5-video.aspx
   IE9 will support playback of H.264 video only.

   Posted 14 years ago #
2. 

   GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
   Blocked

   I think that's a good idea. Why have a middleman decode the video if the browser can do it by itself? For other video formats, there are plugins that will decode them. No problem. We don't need more flash video players that forces you to watch ads before it plays. (You can modify HTML to remove ads, dynamically too.)

   Posted 14 years ago #
3. 

   Lester (Chip)
   English Mod

   I wonder what the point of having Adobe Flash installed is if the future means no flash lol. Does this mean making flash things for the web will be pointless if all browsers do away with this lol.

   Posted 14 years ago #
4. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   http://www.betanews.com/article/Actual-Analysis-Is-HTML-5-already-outmoded/1273009131

   When W3C itself projects 2022 (no, that's not a typo) as the earliest date that a final HTML 5 specification can be completed and published, some are actually saying that date is optimistic.
   !! IE 9 year !! hope not 2022

   Posted 14 years ago #
5. 

   TK_M
   Member

   There is another complication to this - MS have said IE9 will NOT work on XP, so forcing more of us to upgrade before the end of the offical support for XP.

   The alternative is to use a different browser that will support HTML5 - But will they support H.264? Will MS try to make their version of HTML5 just slightly different to everyone else's to force IE9 on us as they did in the past?

   Finally, do you know that H.264 is free only for non-commercial use and that (I believe it's next year) the owners of the codec will start collecting royalties?

   This is going to be a bit of mess if they get it wrong. Flash might not be as dead as it sounds yet?

   Posted 14 years ago #
6. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Yes I did know that H.264 is free only for non-commercial use and that (I believe it's next year) the owners of the codec will start collecting royalties?
   so how we get on with Firefox & Opera !! still if 2022 is right we have time is that wen IE 9 will come out I don't think it be that long !! time will tell.

   Posted 14 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.