HTML 5 is Amazing! Im going to re-do my entire site that has flash content in HTML 5! I have always had trouble watching videos on eMac, but now they run perfect! I suggest all of you switch to html 5 on youtube by going to http://www.youtube.com/html5
Exactly. People who complain about iDevices not having flash don't understand that the FUTURE is in html5. We'll never have a quality online experience if we keep relying on clunky 3rd party plugins that go "om nom nom" on the rams.
Yes webkit support html 5. Also Gecko based browsers like firefox. Always remember though codecs still play a great part of this whole html 5 issue.
wait so iphone already has HTML 5! Is it like flash so there like HTML 5 video players and all that awesome stuff?
FireFox 3.6 supports HTML5, but not the h.264 codec YouTube's HTML5 test uses. (Licensing issues) FireFox only supports Ogg Theora.
No, unfortunately; there was a big discussion about it amongst the committee, and originally had it narrowed down to either H.264 or Ogg Theora, but both have big issues that can't, at the moment, be resolved to any universal level of satisfaction. Apple won't support Ogg Theora citing lack of hardware support and uncertain patent landscape. Google supports supports both Ogg and H.264 in Chrome but can't provide the H.264 codecs to its downstream distributors of Chromium due to licensing issues. Furthermore they state that Ogg does not have a sufficient enough quality-per-bit ratio to be supported by YouTube right now. Opera refuses to implement H.264 citing the ridiculous patent license costs, and Mozilla has the same licensing problem with their downstream distributors as Google. In the end the HMTL5 spec will adopt a policy of not requiring any specific codec, so they'll just let the various browsers and content providers work it out for themselves. Ars Technica has a good article on the topic; it's older (from last July) but nothing has changed since then.
I get a lot of playback issues on YouTube after switching to HTML5, the audio glitches and scares the crap out of me with loud squeaks and crackles, and the video looks like an old ZX Spectum crash screen.
Yeah, me too.... Quality, even when in HD, is a little iffy. Now we know why it's still in the beta phase. Hopefully these issues can be remedied.
