Everything h.264
Google has recently announced that they're removing H.264 -- the video compression open standard used by everything from iPad and iPhone to YouTube and Netflix -- from their Chrome browser.
Skyfire is a browser on other mobile platforms that was at one point purely proxy-based like Opera Mini (where everything was pre-rendered on a server then pushed out to the
The MPEG LA licensing group has announced that their H.264 video codec standard would be going royalty free in perpetuity for free-to-end-user use. Why does this matter to us? Well,
H.264, the video codec Apple supports for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad playback, and for the HTML5 video tag in Safari, and now Microsoft is supporting it as well, which
As announced by Chris Anderson:
Excited about this. Non-flash version of http://ted.com is now live for iphone. Videos, comments, ratings. Hurrah!
For those maintaining score at home, that YouTube
The Other Mac Blog and MacRumors have discovered and confirmed that CBS.com is at least testing iPad-compatible playback ahead of Apple's magical new device launch on April 3.
This new
UPDATE: Yup, Vimeo has gone and pulled the HTML5 trigger as well. Good for them. Good for us. Good for the web.
Last night, Daring Fireball linked to YouTube's
