HTML 5 Excitement

Feb 4

RyanUncategorized, Web , 2 Comments

I am out of the Web Nerd loop by at least a few years (something about my wife being way more interesting than monkeying around with code stuff) but some of the HTML 5 stuff rolling out is pretty slick. Particularly, I am interested in the state of the <video>  roll out. It will be a beauty of a day when folks can post a video and not have to monkey around with Flash (and the various suckiness that comes with that). Thinking I might throw together a page to play around with some of the stuff in the near future.

2 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. devin
    Jul 15, 2009 @ 20:34:51

    i thought the browser groups couldn’t decide on html 5 video and dropped it?

  2. Ryan
    Jul 15, 2009 @ 23:43:31

    Nope. There is debate on which codec to use H.264 or Ogg stuff. Mozilla leaning on Ogg and Apple on H.264 with Google’s chrome supporting both. Internet Explore hasn’t brought any of this into the fold yet.

    The big difference seem to lie in the cost and the hardware support. H.264 requires royalties, Ogg is open source. H.264 is supported by chip developers who already made hardware accelerates (like the new Zune that can HD video without eating batteries for dinner).

    There is some neat stuff out there now that says “Fug it, let’s do both”. They keep both versions (and a flash file, just in case) and have the browser play the one it supports.

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