All youTube contents are also available in MPEG4, since iPhone doesn't support neither FLV and SWF. Same for the most of video streaming websites (except DailyMotion, who choose the mozilla open format)
HTML5 also comes with Ogg Vorbis as a free and supported out-of-the-box format. See Opera tech blog. If flash was just a cool video streaming format, t would be dead for long - It's way more than that !! ;) Remi Le 2 févr. 2010 à 22:19, RobG a écrit : > > > On Jan 30, 2:44 am, Giraldo Rosales <[email protected]> wrote: >> And thinking about it... HTML5 is barely out > > Probably worth mentioning that HTML 5 is not a standard yet. > >> and has yet to advance and work out its kinks. Maybe it can >> compete with Flash after a JS library for canvas comes out. > > I don't think the canvas element is a Flash competitor. Flash is an > application, the content it displays can be displayed by any > application with suitable capabilities. The videos on YouTube can be > played in any media player that supports the codec used (I have > downloaded a number of clips and play them in Quicktime or VLC). > > I also use Flashblock and am very grateful to avoid Flash content > almost entirely. It is certainly not essential to the web. > > > -- > Rob > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iPhoneWebDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en.
