Strange, My answer would've been not yet. Too many differences in supported video codecs cross-browser. A bit of a mare in production unless you've a transcoding service on your media server.
For the maximum audience: Flash 8 preferably (9 if full screen is a requirement), ON2 VP6 Codec, with HTML5 H.264+AAC+MP4 for apple products as back-up. Which is still one too many formats, not to forget that H.264 is licensed. The next generation will be H.264 in Flash v9.3 plus. One format albeit licensed for big and small alike woohoo! HTML5 video will only be truly usable when browsers and devices all support at least one "universal" codec. Probably webM, but we'll have to wait at least a 2 years for that. That's my tuppence worth anyway. regards. mike foskett -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Arnold Sent: 29 September 2010 14:41 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS and h264 vs Flash On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:06 AM, cat soul <[email protected]> wrote: >Flash offers a one-stop shopping > tool, and as has been said, most/many people have the flash plug-in, so > playback is more or less assured across the intertoobs. Except when dealing with the Mobile market where Flash isn't universal and if you care at all if your content plays on the iProducts (Pad, Pod, Phone which does have a decent marketshare in mobile devices) then you'll be looking at alternatives in addition to Flash anyway. > So my question is: can CSS and/or Javascript plus *some* codec of > movie/sound content replace Flash? Yes. If you encode in Ogg and H.264 and include a Flash player fallback for IE < 9 then your video would be available in all the popular browsers and available on all mobile devices that can play video from websites. There's already many templates out there that includes all this (minus the video encodings obviously). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Arnold http://www.jasonarnold.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] ******************************************************************* This is a confidential email. Tesco may monitor and record all emails. The views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not Tesco. Tesco Stores Limited Company Number: 519500 Registered in England Registered Office: Tesco House, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire EN8 9SL VAT Registration Number: GB 220 4302 31 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
