that being said, I just looked at it from a different computer and it was using <video> so I'll just go ahead and put the mud on my own face ;) . Apparently on the previous computer it rolled back to Quicktime for some reason.
.m On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Matt S. <mattsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Kerry Thompson <al...@cyberiantiger.biz> > wrote: >> I don't see anything ironic about using QuickTime. It's one of Apple's >> big success stories. >> >> I can kind of see them pushing HTML5 over Flash, for business reasons. >> But why would they want to use HTML5 over their own product? > > Of course you're right, *IF* you acknowledge that Steve Jobs' recent > decisions have primarily been based on cold hard business > calculations, which most of us do. But that's not the argument *he*, > or other anti-Flashers are making. You hear all the time that the > problem with Flash is that, as a plug-in, it exists outside the stack, > in its own isolated box, whereas HTML5 is standards compliant and > completely open and exists as part of the natural code flow. That is > certainly true to a large extent, but the exact same thing can be said > of Quicktime. > > Secondly, Jobs has made a very specific distinction between the iPhone > vs the browser. While acknowledging that the iPhone is obviously a > closed garden, he has said that when it comes to the *browser*, Apple > is all about open, non-proprietary, standards compliant, HTML5, etc > etc. And clearly, Quicktime is just as closed and proprietary as > Flash, if not more so. > > Thirdly, I dont need to tell anyone here just how central the <video> > tag has been in the whole debate. How often do you hear people saying > that with the <video> tag, Flash is dead, completely ignoring > everything else Flash does? If ever there was a proof of concept where > Jobs & Co. should be putting their money where their mouth is, video > is it. Especially since this video isnt DRM or in need of any other of > the more advanced features that HTML5 can't handle yet. > > .m > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
