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Sooner or later media outlets will face a decision, whether to stick to Flash or embrace HTML5. We talked to Gary Kahn, President of Zeitbyte, a company which provides digital media services like media encoding & streaming and custom media players, to get to know the trend. What’s your view in this HTML5 vs. Flash [...]
Brad Neuberg of the Google buzz team discusses the future of web with HTML5 at an event in San Fransisco (May 11, 2010). The event was hosted by Microsoft and sponsored by Markana and Gamespot among others. The event was jointly presented by The San Fransisco Java User Group (http://www.sfjava.org), The San Fransisco PHP User [...]
Anna Magliocco-Chagnon – CEO of Bitstream since 2003 talks with HTML5Trends.com in an email interview on their recently released version of BOLT browser. You can read her complete profile here. Bolt Browser has been nominated for HTML5 Trendawards under the Video category for fully supporting HTML5 video. Find the full interview below: How do you [...]
The debate has been raging and there is no answer as to which standard is the future of HTML5 video. It is a typical open vs. proprietary debate. Steve Jobs and Apple support it even though it is proprietary, while calling Flash as not open. Apple has some patents in H.264. Firefox supports only Ogg [...]
Håkon Wium Lie proposed a language called CHSS (Cascading HTML Style Sheets) in 1994, which was adopted as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) by W3C. Lie worked with Bert Bos to develop the CSS standard by combining CHSS and Stream Based Style Sheet Proposal (SSP) for styling general markup languages (not only HTML). Unlike existing style [...]
There is a lot of debate on Flash vs HTML5 and if one can kill another. Then there is a perspective that says both can co-exist. We don’t know yet, but as we see through the HTML5 developments we take in account all kinds of views. So, here is another view of a Flash developer, [...]
With iPhone OS 4 being recently announced and previewed, developers received a setback in the form of the terms of agreement not allowing anything other than C, Objective C or C++ for application development. Mobile handset OS market is more fragmented than its desktop counterpart (where windows occupies a near monopoly). In order to reach [...]
AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui says that today mobile applications are successful because of the Application Stores that solve the distribution problem. Hamoui spoke at a developer event in San Mateo, Calif. According to him, HTML5 is capable of doing what any Application can do. However, to win, HTML5 would need to solve the distribution problem. [...]
