Comments on: How the web was won: Google’s five features to build killer web apps http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/27/how-the-web-was-won-googles-five-features-to-build-killer-web-apps/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:59:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: John Dowdell http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/27/how-the-web-was-won-googles-five-features-to-build-killer-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-860050 John Dowdell Fri, 29 May 2009 02:28:02 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=107841#comment-860050 <em>"Canvas is designed to work with HTML and JavaScript, without requiring a browser add-on as Flash does. "</em><br><br>But it would require either browser-profiling or asking the visitor to switch browsers... far less friendly than just using a cross-browser capability already in their browser.<br><br><em>"With the video tag in HTML 5, things become much easier. Instead of complex, error-prone embed codes, developers can point to the video in their code much as they now do to images. The video is much more likely to show up and play."</em><br><br>This is the main part I'd ask you to reconsider and investigate further, Anthony. Try visiting some sites which do use this "only in FF3.5" feature, and look at the markup they use to satisfy their visitors. It's _much_ more fragile.<br><br>There's a subtler issue with codecs. Right now Mozilla pre-releases play back video encoded as<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg_theora#History" rel="nofollow"> Ogg Theora</a>. Apple seems to be pushing for a VIDEO tag so they can provide H.264 video to mobile. What will happen to that simple VIDEO tag when a Mozilla browser meets Apple content?<br><br>jd/adobe “Canvas is designed to work with HTML and JavaScript, without requiring a browser add-on as Flash does. “

But it would require either browser-profiling or asking the visitor to switch browsers… far less friendly than just using a cross-browser capability already in their browser.

“With the video tag in HTML 5, things become much easier. Instead of complex, error-prone embed codes, developers can point to the video in their code much as they now do to images. The video is much more likely to show up and play.”

This is the main part I'd ask you to reconsider and investigate further, Anthony. Try visiting some sites which do use this “only in FF3.5″ feature, and look at the markup they use to satisfy their visitors. It's _much_ more fragile.

There's a subtler issue with codecs. Right now Mozilla pre-releases play back video encoded as Ogg Theora. Apple seems to be pushing for a VIDEO tag so they can provide H.264 video to mobile. What will happen to that simple VIDEO tag when a Mozilla browser meets Apple content?

jd/adobe

]]> By: Random Surfer http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/27/how-the-web-was-won-googles-five-features-to-build-killer-web-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-860049 Random Surfer Wed, 27 May 2009 23:47:40 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=107841#comment-860049 point to note for future .......hmm point to note for future …….hmm

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