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HTML5 Vs. Flash: The Video Benchmark Deathmatch I’ve really started to hate Flash. It either slows down or breaks everything on my PC. So Mac users should be happy to hear that iSwifter, the app that lets iOS users play with Flash content, could soon be replacing Flash on their computers.
Microsoft officially hates WebGL. They say the HTML5-supported graphics technology, which allows for 3D graphics in browsers without the need for special plugins, overexposes computer hardware to potential attacks on the internet.
From now on, any video you upload to YouTube will be transcoded into Google’s WebM codec, joining the “videos that make up 99 per cent of views on the site or nearly 30 per cent of all videos”. Google explains it to the non-tech savvy folk like so:
…everywhere except IE9 and Opera. But all the rest are invited to sign up for a closed beta of TweetDeck’s no-download-needed HTML5 client. The features and UI are the same as the Chrome plug-in (sans streaming). [TweetDeck via TechCrunch]
Bing’s mobile web app just got an update for mobile devices that support HTML5 standards, which means iOS and Android.
When asked a question whether Flash is going to become irrelevant, Jay Sullivan, VP of Products, said:
Who knows why Adobe named its Adobe Air tool “Wallaby” (it hops along?), but this “experimental technology” promises to let you reuse .FLA files by converting it to HTML5 for devices that don’t support it. Like iPads.
