UPDATE: Thanks to zcorpan’s comments, I have posted a follow-up entry that should clarify the current status of the video element and its properties. I have been playing around with the HTML5 video interface lately, trying to understand what can be done with it, and how each browser supports its features as set forth in [...]
[5 Jul 2010]
We need to do more than just point the browser at a video file like the image tag does – there’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying a video. The <video> tag certainly addresses the basic requirements and is making good progress on meeting others, but the <video> tag does not [...]
[30 Jun 2010]
If audience measurement, ad support, and rights management are part of your business requirements, stick to Flash exclusively. HTML5 video does not yet have the ecosystem of services for ad serving, analytics, or streaming that Flash video does. That’s what I said in my latest post “The Mess and Magic of HTML5 Video,” on the [...]
[15 Jun 2010]
Our player doesn’t just simply stream video, it must also secure the content, handle reporting for our advertisers, render the video using a high performance codec to ensure premium visual quality, communicate back with the server to determine how long to buffer and what bitrate to stream, and dozens of other things that aren’t necessarily [...]
[14 May 2010]
So Apple announced the iPad, and it won’t support Flash. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Neither the iPhone nor iPod Touch support Flash. Indeed most mobile platforms don’t (yet) support Flash. Even the smartest of smart phones have limited processing power and storage space compared to laptops and desktops. According to Steve Jobs, Apple doesn’t [...]
[4 Feb 2010]
From his 24 Ways piece, Breaking Out The Edges of The Browser: The Web Storage API is basically cookies on steroids, a unhealthy dosage of steroids. Cookies are always a pain to work with. First of all you have the problem of setting, changing and deleting them. Typically solved by Googling and blindly relying on [...]
[2 Dec 2009]
ImageOptim Mac OS X: A fantastic GUI for optimizing PNG images. Drag images to the list and let ImageOptim work its magic. Open source. Baseline A typography-driven CSS grid framework. Includes styles for HTML forms and HTML 5 elements. Typedia Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces. Get Ready for HTML 5 [...]
[1 Sep 2009]
John Resig of jQuery fame, has a post about a huge performance boost coming to Firefox 3.1: TraceMonkey. TraceMonkey, Resig explains, uses a computing technique known as trace trees (PDF) which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey, Firefox’s current rendering engine. What does this mean? As Resig explains: It means that JavaScript is no [...]
[24 Aug 2008]