Posted on 03/30/2010 12:06:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
HTML5 is gaining ground thanks to Steve Jobs's refusal to allow Adobe's multimedia plugin Flash onto the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Several video services have created HTML5 solutions to deliver video, among them big players such as YouTube, Vimeo, Ooyala, Kalturea, and, as announced yesterday, Brightcove.
Brightcove is the biggest video service for the media industry and powers streaming video for more than 1,000 customers in over 40 countries, among them newspaper websites including the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the New York Times.
The New York Times and Time Inc will be among the first customers to integrate HTML5, Brightcove said yesterday. The US network CBS has also started to test HTML5 for building interactive elements that integrate video streams.
HTML5 is a revision of HTML and apart from being much more flexible and therefore interactive than HTML, it doesn't require a special player. The new markup language might not replace Flash, but it is likely that it will become the preferred standard.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
ping.
It’d be fine if they used a pre-loader for the images.
Google has announced that they will support Adobe Flash in their browser and on their phones. This will keep Flash going foreward and Apple alone in their refusal.
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