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Dave Dempsey

Dave Dempsey

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28. 1. 2010 - 12:34

Today's Webtip: Flash Free

YouTube invites you to beta-test their new player.

The iPad was announced yesterday to a resounding chorus of "no flash?! Forget it!".

Personally, I'm more than happy to get rid of that particular plugin. Games and interesting art projects aside, it has become something rather nasty. Aside form killing site navigation and being somewhat insecure, it's a processor hog and eats batteries for breakfast. Blocking flash in my browser was the quickest fix for a more stable and energy efficient system.

It did, however, solve one problem really well. It put an end to the whole plugin jungle around online video. It also managed to put the Real player back where it belonged. In the trash.

The only time I activate the plugin these days are for a few YouTube videos that aren't offered in H.264, games, and other video sites that still demand it. That may soon come to an end though.

HTML 5 promises video delivery without a plugin. Most modern browsers support portions of the new revision, and it is slowly gaining traction online.

You can try it out now by becoming a part of the YouTube HTML5 beta.

Just click here

You can check out other sites using the new standard by taking a look at the HTML5 gallery.

html5gallery.com

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  • burstup | vor 746 Tagen, 14 Stunden, 37 Minuten

    is it possible that this doesn't work with Firefox? they want me to install google chrome or the chrome plugin for IE8. why would I do that instead of just using flash?

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    • daddyd | vor 746 Tagen, 13 Stunden, 45 Minuten

      I just read that although Firefox implemented the tag, they only support it for OGG, and not for h.264.

      So no Firefox for now.

    • martinparr | vor 745 Tagen, 21 Stunden, 54 Minuten

      Mozilla will not support h.264

      http://tinyurl.com/ykxcjtd

      "Even if we were to pay the $5,000,000 annual licensing cost for H.264, and we were to not care about the spectre of license fees for internet distribution of encoded content, or about content and tool creators, downstream projects would be no better off."

      If you use h.264 on your site, you have to pay the fees. And it's not cheap! It's like the GIF-patent in the late 1990s.

    • daddyd | vor 745 Tagen, 21 Stunden,

      damn. I haven't been paying attention to that. THanks for the info.