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Quote: Originally Posted by brian g After reading some technical explanations on this codec it seems like the Google engineers are tired of polishing this turd and are hoping that making it open will further it's development. This isn't a gift to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ihxo You are the one who said that H.264 and WebM is so "similar". Is Google going to pay for it when one day MPEG-LA realized that WebM is infringing on their patents? ON2 has also been long in the codec business a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Asherian Look at it this way: HOW is h264 "open"? Its specifications are open for anybody to implement, just not free of charge.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ihxo Why H264 can't be a part of Open web? It is by any definition an open standard The W3C has strict requirements for technologies and standards it endorses. One of them is that they must be royality free, somethi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by John.B Remind me what devices have VP8/WebM hardware decoders built-in? This does not mean that this can not change since it has been less than a day since the opening of VP8 was announced. I'm sure many content p…
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I'd rather wish the plug-in provider would implement silent updates for all of their plug-ins. Most users have no concept of Internet security and its in their best interest if the system/applications handle(s) updates automatically. A commendabl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rokcet Scientist Isn't this again one of those instances where Flash screws Safari? I would install Click-to-Flash, and see if that helps. Unlikely as Flash is run in its own process thus its memory usage is not add…
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Does anyone has numbers about the size of the so-called smartphone market compared to the overall mobile phone market? EDIT: Someone already posted it while I was writing. As expected, AppleInsider added some spin to the story. EDIT 2: Quot…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie Question, does ARM actually manufacture the processors themselves? No, and this is an intentional business decision. By only selling designs they'll never be in the situation where their own business i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 OS X was released in 2001. Server was released in 1999. You can surf anywhere on the net with OS X. You'll be just fine. Unless, of course, you happen to come a compromised site which (ab)uses securi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Erunno Top Sites seem to run in the same thread as the UI. I have to correct myself here. Safari spawns another process called "Preview Fetcher" or similar which supposedly does the job of populating Top Sites. Not …
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Quote: Originally Posted by d-range Faster is always better of course, but I think you're exaggerating here. No, I'm not. I'm talking about frozen UI while Safari is pondering about updating the top sites for several seconds and equally slow o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism You seem to be looking it as if Apple employees are sitting around scratching their heads wondering how to mimic Firefox, but you should be looking at what Apple is doing with their browsers. What exactly …
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Quote: Originally Posted by d-range Gotta love it how OS X updates so often actually add useful stuff or improve performance, as opposed to just plugging holes or fix critical bugs. Safari 4 should have never been released with such abyssal to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by coolfactor Safari had this before Firefox did, so ha! Nice try, though. Firefox introduced full page zoom with 3.0 in June 2008 while Safari 4 was released a year later so your statement is wrong. It's actually Oper…
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Safari is missing quite a lot of handy basic features and interface tweaks from other browsers. The only it currently has going for it is the integration with the rest of OS X but as a standalone browser it is below par at best. Given Safari's glaci…
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Steve Jobs: Good artists copy great artists steal.
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Quote: Originally Posted by pats As far as changes to the graphics layer. Both OSX and Windows abstract the hardware which means you can use different vendors product and they work fine. Of course, but the Windows abstraction layers seem to g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It is a shame. Of all the companies out there you'd think the one that makes the HW and OS would have figured out a way to tackle this problem before it's an option on Windows. Isn't this a software proble…
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Quote: Originally Posted by newbee You already are a comedy. And you are boring which is even worse.