On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 00:07, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > youtube ... is still very 'betqaish' with html5
You must be using a different YouTube than me. I have had very little in the way of problems with HTML5 on YT, and nothing recently. Not all videos are available in HTML5 yet, but fallback has been seamless. > One of the problems I still see is the video codecs 'war'. We have this > wonderful <video> tag, but nobody knows what exaclty to encode the video > file in. Now if you have millions of videos to (re)encode that is not > trivial question. I guess it'll need time to settle, like if you're putting > a <img> tag you know the source is going to be .jpg, .png or legacy .gif and > that 99% browsers will support it - today (by the way it looks like Internet > Explora only supported full alpha in png at verions 7! [1]). > Well, for <video> it would help a lot if there was just one, but two covers all possibilities: WebM and h.264 are all that is needed. And if you are willing to make users install a codec plugin, WebM works across the desktop at least (not sure about mobile, but it should work). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=_Tarif9P+f+D1=iGXt2aqQ=_uyfcj36-jfolch5or...@mail.gmail.com