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In the past several weeks, lot of websites are adding support for HTML5. Especially, with the arrival of iPad, it has become imperative for major video sites to add HTML5 support as the base of iPad users grows. Viddler can now be added to the list of such site as it has added HTML5 in [...]
LongTail announced the release of its beta JW Player for HTML5 video. This is yet another player developed using jQuery framework and supports functionality like fallback to Flash. The JW family already has video players for Flash and Silverlight. The player can be downloaded from this location. Check out a demo here of a single mp4 [...]
Thumbplay (www.thumbplaymusic.com), a provider of mobile entertainment in the US has been selected to demo its cloud-based music service Thumbplay Music at the 2010 Google I/O conference. The company will reveal an early release of the Thumbplay Music app running on Google Chrome (also supporting Chrome OS) and utilizes HTML5 and CSS3. Thumbplay is one [...]
http://www.w3.org/ — 20 April 2010 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) invites WWW2010 conference participants to attend two W3C track sessions on April 29 and 30 in Raleigh, North Carolina (USA). Responding to the Web community’s demand for open discussion on the future of HTML5 and Linked Data, W3C organizes this year an HTML5 campand a Linked Open [...]
Google announced yesterday that it has rewritten docs to take advantage of faster rendering engines in modern browsers and upcoming technologies like HTML5, in the process adding a lot of new functionality. In a blog post, Google Apps Manager Anil Sabharwal says: The new Google Docs editors will take advantage of faster rendering engines in [...]
Adobe sees its future threatened by HTML5. So, instead of fighting it why not embrace it? That’s what it has just done. With the release of CS5 to public, Adobe showed off a tool that would allow exporting flash animations to HTML5 canvas. I would say this is a smart move as developers can directly [...]
So, youtube does not allow all videos in HTML5, as it does not support ads yet. But, mDialog seems to have solved this problem by launching a new ad platform that can display ads on HTML5 videos. Mashable covers this in more detail. Source: Mashable, mDialog
Users are reporting that Youtube videos appear to consume more CPU and appear blocky compared to Flash. On Youtube support and feedback forums, there is a page regarding this report. Hit the source link to read more into that. Source: Youtube support
MacRumors reports that CBS.com is testing a flashless video site, by providing HTML5 video support. This is possibly a move with the impeding release of iPad from Apple in mind. It remains to be seen how many other TV networks follow suit. What browser’s are supported is not know at this time, but most likely [...]
LiveClicker has released an HTML5 video player supporting interactive eCommerce. Now, Youtube already has some level of HTML5 testing going on. So, we see HTML5 video really hitting on. Hit the source link for more on the news. Source: reelseo
