Posted on Friday, April 30 2010 @ 19:51 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Microsoft Internet Explorer developer Dean Hachamovitch joins Apple in their fight against Flash by stating that HTML5 is the future, and praising the standard for its capability to play H.264 video without having to install any plugins or other additional software.
The future of the web is HTML5. Microsoft is deeply engaged in the HTML5 process with the W3C. HTML5 will be very important in advancing rich, interactive web applications and site design. The HTML5 specification describes video support without specifying a particular video format. We think H.264 is an excellent format. In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video only.
H.264 is an industry standard, with broad and strong hardware support. Because of this standardization, you can easily take what you record on a typical consumer video camera, put it on the web, and have it play in a web browser on any operating system or device with H.264 support (e.g. a PC with Windows 7). Recently, we publicly showed IE9 playing H.264-encoded video from YouTube.
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