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Microsoft to adopt H.264-Based HTLM5 Video in IE9

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Does this mean MS will get rid of their silverlight?
 
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Maybe HTML5 is the future.
 
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Does this mean MS will get rid of their silverlight?

Doubtful, at least not anytime in the near future. They aren't going solely to HTML5, just offering support for it (as well as many other codecs).
 
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Adobe just refuses to admit the problems they have with Flash and it doesn't seem they are willing to adapt and change to the emerging new technologies. Instead they just seem to like to complain when others point out their flaws.

Adobe has enjoyed the lack of competition for too long and they are mad that something else might lessen their dominance. IMO Flash on Windows wasn't that great either. The Mac version just sucked more. Hopefully Flash will go away quicker now that IE is also supporting HTML5.
 
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Adobe just refuses to admit the problems they have with Flash and it doesn't seem they are willing to adapt and change to the emerging new technologies. Instead they just seem to like to complain when others point out their flaws.

Adobe has enjoyed the lack of competition for too long and they are mad that something else might lessen their dominance. IMO Flash on Windows wasn't that great either. The Mac version just sucked more. Hopefully Flash will go away quicker now that IE is also supporting HTML5.


I hated flash too on Windows. Of all the viruses that I obtained over the last 5 years on a Windows computer (XP), flash is the one major cause that infected my computer.
 
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To me Silverlight = Flash. Both plugin based proprietary codecs that are bloated cpu hogs. I think MS just wants to see flash die. So later on they can make their silerlight bigger. When MS solely adoptes open sourse things like html 5 then I'll say this is a good move.

But until then it's just MS saying we will support html 5 for those who love it but we love our silerlight more.
 
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news on the web

There is talk on the web that Apple and Microsoft are members of MPEG LA, the firm that is a patent pool. They are the ones who are licensing H.264 technology.

So it seems that what ever royalties MPEG LA collects, it will be distributed among all the patent holders of H.264, and that includes Apple and Microsoft.

So Apple and Microsoft customers will never have to pay royalties as they are members of MPEG LA.

Here is the list of patent holders
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avc-att1.pdf

And here is where I read this news,
Web video gets H.264 royalty reprieve | Deep Tech - CNET News

All this talk of H.264 is looking suspicious to me now.
 
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HTML5 ftw.

No really, I'm excited about it. So far what I've seen has been rather buggy, but who knows what the future holds.
 
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html5 really isn't the panacea that it's being made out to be at the current time. It's two years from draft stage, in isn't scheduled to be finished until 2022. In the current scheme of things, flash is still much better than html5 in many applications, and by this I mean less processor intensive when doing the same jobs.

All rhetoric out of Cupertino aside, you still need to support Flash right now to really have full featured web access. Yeah, the future will support more stuff, etc, but right now, there is a lot that you can't do on your iPad or iPhone because of lack of Flash support. And Apple sounding off about closed and proprietary standards is pretty ****ed disingenuous when you look at the way they do things.
 

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Scribd looks pretty good on the iPad.

Here's their sample on my Mac in:

Safari:
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Opera:
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and Firefox gets it right:
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Looks like it may be more important than ever to have multiple browsers on hand.
 
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Agreed Bob. We all still need the 3 big (and best in my opinion) of browsers you mentioned for little situations just like the one you said.
 

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