There’s been a lot of posting about video and video formats on the web recently. This is a good opportunity to talk about Microsoft’s point of view.
The future of the web is HTML5. Microsoft is deeply engaged in the HTML5 process with the W3C. HTML5 will be very important in advancing rich, interactive web applications and site design. The HTML5 specification describes video support without specifying a particular video format. We think H.264 is an excellent format. In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video only.
H.264 is an industry standard, with broad and strong hardware support. Because of this standardization, you can easily take what you record on a typical consumer video camera, put it on the web, and have it play in a web browser on any operating system or device with H.264 support (e.g. a PC with Windows 7). Recently, we publicly showed IE9 playing H.264-encoded video from YouTube. You can read about the benefits of hardware acceleration here, or see an example of the benefits at the 26:35 mark here. For all these reasons, we’re focusing our HTML5 video support on H.264.
Other codecs often come up in these discussions. The distinction between the availability of source code and the ownership of the intellectual property in that available source code is critical. Today, intellectual property rights for H.264 are broadly available through a well-defined program managed by MPEG LA. The rights to other codecs are often less clear, as has been described in the press. Of course, developers can rely on the H.264 codec and hardware acceleration support of the underlying operating system, like Windows 7, without paying any additional royalty.
Today, video on the web is predominantly Flash-based. While video may be available in other formats, the ease of accessing video using just a browser on a particular website without using Flash is a challenge for typical consumers. Flash does have some issues, particularly around reliability, security, and performance. We work closely with engineers at Adobe, sharing information about the issues we know of in ongoing technical discussions. Despite these issues, Flash remains an important part of delivering a good consumer experience on today’s web.
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager, Internet Explorer
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Grønvold believes that Adobe must move fast to embrace the openness of the web if it is to evade the kind of PR disaster that was Jobs' uncharacteristically lengthy diatribe about the company.
"For some reason it's not part of the fabric of the web currently and Flash either needs to include itself in the future of the web and open web standards or its technology is going to be consistently under attack from all sides as the open web standard movement grows further and further," said Grønvold.
"Because eventually we will have the canvas [of the web] in good quality and we'll have the toolsets to use that canvas in the quality but in the foreseeable future, 18 months or so, Flash is not going away and it is critical."
So, no stinging rebuke from Opera – but it is clear that the web giants are not rushing to defend Adobe from the might of Apple, and that in itself speaks volumes.
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H Apple τα έχει πει ήδη πρώτη απ' όλες εδώ και 3+ χρόνια με το iPhone στην πράξη. Γι άλλη μια φορά ολόκληρη η βιομηχανία των Η/Υ (Ηλεκτρονικών Υπολογιστών) ακολουθεί τα βήματα της Apple. Ευτυχώς. Όσο για την Google (με το ένα πόδι HTML5 και με το άλλο Flash), Mozilla (δεν ξέρει τι θέλει) και Adobe (Flash baby, yeah!) ποτέ δεν είναι αργά. Σας περιμένουμε. ΜΠΑΣ και βάλετε μυαλό. Που δεν το βλέπω.
Κακιά Apple. Κακιά! Τους αναγκάζεις όλους να κάνουν πράγματα που δεν θέλουν όπως πχ. να παρατήσουν τις δισκέτες των 3.5" 13+ χρόνια μετά από εσένα. Και πάλι δεν είναι σίγουροι λέει και γι αυτό!
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