Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
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> | HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation
> | specification, could become a game-changer in Web application
> | development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich
> | Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft
> | Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.
> |
> | The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTML 5 proposal [1] is geared
> | toward Web applications, something not adequately addressed in previous
> | incarnations of HTML, the W3C acknowledges. In other words, HTML 5
> | tackles the gap that Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX are trying to fill.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Google may also face some touchy decisions. For example, its YouTube
> | subsidiary uses Flash for its video, but the inclusion of HTML 5
> | capabilities in browsers might cause YouTube to rethink that decision,
> | notes Fette. "It's a cost/benefit analysis that they'd need to make."
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> http://www.infoworld.com/print/79291
Well, this is good news for us freedom-loving computer users. :) More
choice is good. I hope things turn out all right!
> Open Letter to Google's Eric Schmidt Requesting HTTPS
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> | Google Mail, Calendar and Docs could be vulnerable. That's the argument
> | an open letter to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt makes, thereby asking him to
> | adopt the HTTPS standard for data transfers for these applications.
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>linux-magazine.com/online/news/open_letter_to_google_s_eric_schmidt_
>requesting_https
I use Gmail. It has been pretty stable for the whole time I've been using
it. The outages never affected me, by the way. I wasn't online during
them. :P
> Google toys with plug-in free YouTube
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> | Google has mocked up a version of YouTube built around the HTML5 video
> | tag, playing mini-movies inside a browser sans plug-ins.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/27/youtube_html5/
I hope they keep on testing it. I'm curious to see what cool things they
will come up with.
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