@patrick yes pinning tasks is an example of what does not need to be done - flourish added by microsoft for extra flare :) - bet that was the result of some blue sky idea in some board room / focus group; more reason for ie 9ish being on xp (50% users)
@mike some of the eloquence/stats I was looking for - S On 29 September 2010 17:06, Foskett, Mike <mike.fosk...@uk.tesco.com> wrote: > 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: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On > Behalf Of Jason Arnold > Sent: 29 September 2010 14:41 > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS and h264 vs Flash > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:06 AM, cat soul <cats...@thinkplan.org> 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: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > > 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: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
