On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:40 AM, TJ Edmister <damag...@hyakushiki.net> wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:55:59 -0500, Matej Horvat > <matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si> wrote:
>> Usually when people say HTML5, they mean the <audio> and <video> >> elements,which currently no DOS browser supports. They are a _good_ thing. >> They make it possible to include audio and video without relying on >> proprietary technologies such as Flash (which fortunately hardly any site >> requires anymore, probably because of iOS's popularity). > > Haha. A simple link to an audio or video file? But that's exactly what the > site operators don't want, or they could have done it in the first place. > It would be way too easy. Nope. The big incentive to using HTML5 is embedded video. Video was historically encoded for web viewing as Shockwave Flash, and viewing it required Adobe's Flash Player installed as a browser plugin. Adobe Flash Player is a PITA. A while back, Firefox implemented a plugin container executable, to provide a sandbox in which plugins could execute, so a crashing plugin didn't take the browser down with it. Adobe Flash was the main reason they did that. The current trend in browser development is "Plugins are bad. The user should be able to do everything in the browser without requiring a plugin." The HTML5 <video> keyword *does* require a codec to decode and stream the content, but the codec will be delivered with the browser and be part of the browser environment. You don't need a third-party program called from the browser. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
