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Honeycomb looks very slick to me. One thing they got right is to not require a home button. It makes no sense in a tablet, specially in portrait mode. If this makes Apple improve iOS's notification system and replace those popups by something les…
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Quote: Originally Posted by insike So you think people should pay to implement support for HTML and CSS? No. I think this would be plain wrong. A mid-term solution that would appease both Apple and open web fanatics is: all browsers commit …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse So, you quote me as indicating that they aren't trying to control the web, just behaving stupidly, then ask me to explain how they are trying to control the web? Who's behaving stupidly now? You said …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse No, they're just behaving stupidly Great argument. Would love to know your conspiracy theory about how Firefox and Opera are trying to "control the web" with WebM.
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Nice attempt to confuse the issue, but Google is the company here pushing everyone to Flash. According to your logic... Mozilla and Opera too, no? Mozilla is the one with the biggest browser share, at lea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse That's because you don't understand what 'open' means in this context. Yes, I do. We are talking about open web. H.264 can't be considered open in the context of open web because it is patent-encumbered. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AdonisSMU FF has 22% and chrome has 12% of the browser market. Let's get our facts straight. That's no where near 50%. Right. Depending on what stats you look at, FF, Chrome and Opera have between 35% and 50% of the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse The Google Books Program, for one. Fair, they were condemned at least in France, payed and had to step back. Not sure if this warrants you the right to call it a "long history", specially because we are t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse H.264, which is an open standard, no matter how many times you deny that it is, that promotes an open Web, and has been embraced by an open Web. Sorry, H.264 can't be the standard video fpor the open web …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Google has a long history of not respecting iP law Really? You made me curious. Can you point a single case of Google being sued and condemned or settled a deal for infringing patents? Just one. Big t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H "open" (and by that you actually mean "free") is more important than quality or hardware support The meme "H.264 is superior" is false. WebM is superior in several aspects. It all depends on who is analyzing. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse The only open standard that is viable for that, however, is H.264. WebM isn't open and it isn't a standard. H.264 isn't open because it is not royalty-free. That was said already.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Even when the next version of Chrome comes out, less than 10% of the browsers in use will play WebM while 90% (all but Chrome) will play H.264 natively. And even the remaining 10% can play H.264 in a Flash wra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jonamac but ultimately H.264 gets the job done well and is ubiquitous. It is not ubiquitous on the web. That is why the majority of videos are still served using Flash. The tag is not so widespread and Mozilla, Ope…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EgoAleSum The W3C did NOT even define HTML5! Well, HTML5 didn't define a standard codec for videos because they couldn't choose a proprietary one. This brings us back to the discussion: isn't it easier to just stick…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EgoAleSum What systems? You know that there are open source operating systems that are not from Apple or Microsoft. I don't need to name them. This whole discussion is about open web standards, which exist exactl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tawilson Still doesn't change the fact the H.264 IS an open standard now does it? Yes it does because the subject of this whole discussion is the tag defined by open web standards, and these standards are defined b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EgoAleSum What he meant (and what looks as the most intelligent solution to me as well) is that if a browser can't pay for the license, it should use libraries already available on the operating system where it's insta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii Mac OS X and Windows 7 both have H.264 decoding in the operating system libraries. Any program, including Mozilla can use these functions. Are you suggesting that the tag should work only for Mac OS X or Wind…
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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?!? It can't be an open standard for the W3C, because it is not royalty-free. This was said already.