Only 7.2mbits? Crap, here in the colonies (australia) we have access to 21mbit speeds, though of course we have to sell numerous organs to pay for it.
So if it’s bad news for Adobe then it’s bad news for Microsoft and Silverlight, right?
yes that’s right video “tagging” will kill Flash.
ugh, ok first of all this will allow web developers to embed video directly into the browser using an HTML 5.0 tag, that’s not tagging. “Tagging” is when you apply keyword metadata to some data in an application, see Flickr or Slashdot.
The only way this will be widely utilized is if IE, Firefox and Safari all implement it the same way, it could take years for this to happen. Presumably it will also require the developers to create all of the controls for the player. This can be done now trivially with Flash. It’s super easy to create your own media player and there are several downloadable for free.
Flash is ubiquitous, I’m relatively certain you use it all the time without even realizing it.
HTML 5 has a lot going for it, but the lack of javascript compatibility between the major browsers will guarantee Flash (and Silverlight for that matter) isn’t going anywhere soon.
I decided to try Firefox 3.5 beta 4 after listening to this, and am commenting from it. The video and audio tags work! If you have a beta or nightly build of anything non-IE, you can try this page:
double.co.nz/video_test
The SVG demo is very cool. You can rotate and scale a video as it plays.
#3
There is one thing flash can’t do; it can’t really become part of a page, since it’s really a separate application. This may not seem big, but it has some important implications. It will always be a struggle to make flash and regular portions of a page blend together perfectly. For instance, I get annoyed when I try to middle click a link in flash and nothing happens, when I expect a new tab. Also (and this could be Firefox or Ubuntu specific), I can be scrolling down a page and the cursor hits some flash, and suddenly I can’t scroll.
I’ll agree that it will be a long time before using video tags is standard. It will probably never be implemented in IE, just like SVG still doesn’t work in IE. However, it’s likely that once other browsers actually have support, it will be standards compliant. Other browsers tend to actually follow W3C recommendations.
Flash dead? one can only hope!
Flash Video has already won. What puzzles me, is why Adobe and Microsoft are not producing players.
Public builds of Chrome for Mac and Linux http://bit.ly/KsDNw
So said the guy who predicted paper copies will die in 1990
Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification:
“The reality is that the browser vendors have the ultimate veto on everything in the spec, since if they don’t implement it, the spec is nothing but a work of fiction. So they have a lot of influence—I don’t want to be writing fiction, I want to be writing a spec that documents the actual behaviour of browsers.
Whether that’s too much, I don’t know. Does gravity have too much influence on objects on earth? It’s just the way it is.”
Natural language recognition? Let’s try accurate written language translation on the PC 1st…
Here’s the GoogleIO Day 1 keynote where the talk HTML 5: http://bit.ly/Xb1KT
Oooops. This says a lot. Bing Demo uses Flash: http://bit.ly/7HKWI
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