On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:31:20 +0200, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:35 AM, schalk <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi there,
Has anyone/everyone read the blog entry on Youtube’s blog
(http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html) regarding
their
feeling about HTML5 video and why they still feel that Flash for video
is the
preferred choice? I must say I do share some of their points. My
question is,
what work is being done to remedy these points at the moment?
So, for a quick recap, their problems are:
1. Standard video format
2. Robust video streaming
3. Content Protection
4. Encapsulation + embedding
5. Fullscreen video
6. Camera and Microphone access
The blog itself successfully covers the current responses to 1, 2, 5,
and 6. #3 is a different story; it doesn't appear that anyone in this
space is working on that or intends to. And I'm happy with that. #4
is kind of silly - flash embedding doesn't protect anyone's private
data - the plugin can do plenty of malicious stuff if it wants to.
Spreading videos by embedding <script> tags would be equally safe. I
think people just don't realize that fact. In any case, embedding
videos via <iframe sandbox=allow-scripts> should work fine, once more
browsers support it.
~TJ
What issues would there be with simply using <iframe> without sandboxing?
What doesn't the cross-origin policy stop?
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Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software
