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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta As of today, EVERY browser can play h.264. Correction: Every browser can use plugins like Flash, and Flash might use h264 or some other codec, but the browser still doesn't support those codecs. Basically, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by z3r0 How does dropping H264 help with standardizing video on the web? Because it deals a blow to a closed standard which is incompatible with an open web. Quote: This another direct attack by Google at Apple. Fi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EgoAleSum That's not what I meant. HTML5, referring to the *full* standard ( and , but also Geolocation, Drag and Drop, WebSockets, etc etc etc) was not defined by W3C! It is now. Quote: If you read the story o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EgoAleSum The W3C did NOT even define HTML5! The W3C is the standards body which publishes the HTML5 standard. Quote: If we had followed the W3C from the beginning, now we would not be discussing about this... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by tawilson Google says there are "no know patent violations in VP8" because nobody there has looked. Nonsense. Of course they have analyzed it. In fact, On2 did too, because their business was based on making video co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tawilson If that were truly the case then they would be supporting H.264 which is an OPEN STANDARD from ISO?!? H264 is not an open standard. Read the W3C Patent Policy. Open standards are required to be royalty-free…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tawilson Also, H.264/AVC has 940 licensees (therefore supporters), which makes WebM's supporters look irrelevant. HTML5 didn't have any support either when it first arrived. Your logic is extremely weird.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Archos It is not the opinion of AppleInsider. "Open" has long referred to specifications that are openly presented to enable interoperability. It does not mean, necessarily, Open Source or Free Software. Repeating what…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Realistic MPEG LA is already saying they believe that WebM already violates some MPEG LA patents. The MPEG-LA would have acted on it by now if they weren't just bullshitting. Quote: If WebM gets any of the major…
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Quote: Originally Posted by geezmo And given that Mozilla and Opera have together 30-35% of the browser market (now 40-47% with Chrome) No, the situation is far, far worse for h264. It's extremely disturbing. We know that Firefox, Chrome an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 This part of the Opera article is nonsense (and who really cares about Opera anyways?) Why would you have to care about Opera? Opera isn't important here. It's the argument that matters. But you obviously…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bigmc6000 I don't get the hate for this. It's crapware. It apparently spies on the user. The company even stated that they thought not collecting personal information was "outside the norm."
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Quote: Originally Posted by Steve-J Good news. It seems to be a bit of a kludge, though. Sort of like the Opera way of doing things - sort things out on a powerful computer, and transmit something easily digestible by a handheld. In both cas…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider The new Skyfire browser will be available for download at 9 a.m. Eastern on Thursday for $2.99 from the App Store, and will convert Flash video to HTML5 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. I can't be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Numerous threads pertaining to Consumer Reports' testing of the iPhone 4, which found reception issues, were removed from Apple's official online forums Monday. Conspiracy theory fail. Apple deleted …
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Actually, the communication between the Mini client and sever is encrypted, so it's actually safer than other browsers on open wifi networks. Furthermore, just because the data goes through their servers doesn't mean that they are tracking browsi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland Don't forget Safari Widgets. Apple's take on web browser Extensions. Widgets aren't extensions. They are separate applications based on web technology.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe hs I hope safari 5 for windows will handle html5 as well as safari 4 for mac os x; in apples html5 showcase a lot of features don't work as well as on the mac. Apple's "HTML5 showcase" hardly uses any HTML5 at a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider The document also mentions a new feature, Safari Reader, which adds a Reader icon to the browser and allows users to view articles "in a single, clutter-free page." I don't get it. Another icon, and it …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Transparency is the killer for HTML 5 and Flash. Because transparency is such an easy thing to do in Flash and the results are visually pleasing, you see it everywhere. The power required to add the shadowBlur a…