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Once you get over the technology previews and get ready for mass adoption, one of the first questions to address is accessibility. Same applies to HTML5 Video. HTML5 Video has already seen quite an adoption from video sites like YouTube, to news providers and, even porn industry. A simple file format is being developed at [...]
After Apple released a showcase of HTML5 demos, Google has released its own vision called HTML5 Rocks. Of course, Google is a major proponent of the standard, and it definitely suits Google more than it does to Apple. The new site is a culmination of other open source projects on Google Code namely html5rocks, html5playground [...]
Ext JS is now Sencha. An HTML5 Mobile Application development framework. Sencha Touch allows to develop web apps that look and feel native on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices, using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. There is a special theme available for Android devices. The framework supports various touch events, data integration using AJAX, [...]
Firefox has added support for WebM (formerly VP8) in its beta channel and so has Opera and Chrome. It was a matter of time that websites started adding support for the format, with the guarantee from Google that it is indeed royalty-free. OGGTV has added support for streaming television. OGGTV is adding online TV services [...]
Apple just released Safari 5, and claimed it to be the fastest browser on the planet. Now, those claims are disputable on Windows. But, might hold true on a Mac. Anyways, that is not the point here. Apple reaffirmed its support for HTML5 again and Safari 5 adds more support for HTML5. Now, on a [...]
We all know how much Apple loves HTML5 and (public displays of) hates Flash. Google recently demonstrated its backing for Flash (mockingly at Apple), trying to prove how crippled Apple’s devices are (for the time being with a web full of Flash) without the support for Flash. Make no mistake, Google “is” the one writing [...]
We earlier reported on how to convert Flash to HTML5 using Adobe Flash. Now there is another way to convert your Flash SWFs into HTML5+Javascript with Smokescreen. Smokescreen is a new open-source project aimed at converting Flash to JavaScript/HTML5 to run where it previously couldn’t and better interoperate with webpages where it previously could. The [...]
YouTube was quick to add HTML5 video support with a beta HTML5 player. However, one functionality missing from the Youtube's HTML5 player is full screen viewing mode. Now there is an extension to do that on Chrome. An extension called Fullscreen adds a button to Youtube when the video is being watched in the HTML5 mode. [...]
Mefeedia, a web video aggregation network has released some statistics, which are great for HTML5 fans. A key takeaway from this statistic is 26% of all web video is now available for playback in HTML5 using the H.264 format. This figure is as of May 2010, a huge increase from Jan 2010 when it was just 10%. [...]
With the advent of new devices like iPad that consume information, it makes sense that Scribd add support for HTML5 because either Flash is not supported (only promised) on these new range of mobile devices or not allowed. Scribd allows any kinds of documents to be hosted on their 5000+ servers and served to millions [...]
