Re: Adobe flash is dead
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 00:07, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> youtube ... is still very 'betqaish' with html5
You must be using a different YouTube than me. I have had very little
in the way of problems with HTML5 on YT, and nothing recently. Not
all videos are available in HTML5 yet, but fallback has been seamless.
> One of the problems I still see is the video codecs 'war'. We have this
> wonderful <video> tag, but nobody knows what exaclty to encode the video
> file in. Now if you have millions of videos to (re)encode that is not
> trivial question. I guess it'll need time to settle, like if you're putting
> a <img> tag you know the source is going to be .jpg, .png or legacy .gif and
> that 99% browsers will support it - today (by the way it looks like Internet
> Explora only supported full alpha in png at verions 7! [1]).
>
Well, for <video> it would help a lot if there was just one, but two covers
all possibilities: WebM and h.264 are all that is needed. And if you
are willing to make users install a codec plugin, WebM works across
the desktop at least (not sure about mobile, but it should work).
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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