Enjoyed your article...I find your writing style very enjoyable and educational. Sure beats the heck out of me trying to keep up with the latest and greatest by sifting through tons of technical magazines. Your conversational tone keeps it interesting. Your reference to techincal stuff makes it worth while. I added Reel SEO to my Google Reader a few days ago and love the updates.
I do have issues occasionally with IE7 locking up. When I clicked thru from Google Reader today it worked fine. But when I went to Reel SEO direct IE7 froze. Is this a common problem? My husband said he had issues the other day at work.
Mark Robertson
· 6 months ago
Dana, thanks for the feedback, yes, Christophor has a way with words. Im going to take a look at IE, I tested in in IE6 and didnt have the issues but there are some things that I can do to increase load time and Im working on it ;-) Just for your own experience, I would update to IE8 if I were you, I found it to be much better. I happen to like Chrome and Firefox more, but IE8 is a big improvement over IE7
Justin C.
· 6 months ago
If flash is going to die, what will be the new dominant codec(s)? And how will the browsers decode them? The cool thing about flash is it's the most ubiquitous.
John Dowdell
· 6 months ago
"Right now I’m installing the Firefox 3.5 beta so I can begin a deeper look into things. Hopefully I’ll have a better vision of the future when I’m done and can give you more accurate prognostications for the future."
Sounds like a good plan. ;-)
jd/adobe
Mark Robertson
· 6 months ago
:-)
mike
· 6 months ago
"In fact, the HTML 5 Video Tag could very well be a step backward for online video."
Whoa whoa whoa, um... what about that think called javascript?
You obviously need a browser that supports , Secondly, i'd like to see flash do that in real time...
Seth Goldstein
· 6 months ago
I don't see Flash going by the wayside anytime soon. It's going to take a heck of long time for the world of browsers and coders in general to adopt HTML 5 if ever.
I'll believe it when I see it. Though HTML 5 sounds really neat.
@Dana - Mark is looking into that issue to see if he can replicate it. What version of IE are you using?
@Justin Right now the codecs look like Ogg Theora + Vorbis. It would be best, for a truly open format, if we could have a codec that had no patents filed on it and was completely in the public domain. So that means either the patent holders on Ogg would have to waive their rights or we need to, as a community, agree on something and either build from the ground up or drive the development of an already existing freely available codec. That would then guarantee that it was truly free and readily available to all without things like patents and licensing fees getting in the way.
Silvia
· 6 months ago
When you talk about the lack of interactivity in the HTML5 video element, I believe you haven't understood exactly what it is going to enable. Ever heard of Web 2.0? And that it was caused by something called AJAX (asyncrhonous javascript and XML)? Well, right now Flash and AJAX don't interact easily, because the Flash programmer has to explicitly implement an interface to javascript and then the Web page needs to interact with that. With HTML5 video, there is a standard javascript interface to video. In addition, the video is actually part of the Web page and reacts to CSS and javascript commands - such as the demo that mike pointed out. There are many more impressive demos - I have started making a list on my blog: http://blog.gingertech.net/2009/06/12/cool-html5-... .
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I do have issues occasionally with IE7 locking up. When I clicked thru from Google Reader today it worked fine. But when I went to Reel SEO direct IE7 froze. Is this a common problem? My husband said he had issues the other day at work.
Sounds like a good plan. ;-)
jd/adobe
Whoa whoa whoa, um... what about that think called javascript?
Check out the demo:
http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/blizzard/35days/...
You obviously need a browser that supports , Secondly, i'd like to see flash do that in real time...
I'll believe it when I see it. Though HTML 5 sounds really neat.
-Seth Goldstein
http://www.goldsteinmedia.com/blog
http://www.twitter.com/sethgoldstein
@Dana - Mark is looking into that issue to see if he can replicate it. What version of IE are you using?
@Justin Right now the codecs look like Ogg Theora + Vorbis. It would be best, for a truly open format, if we could have a codec that had no patents filed on it and was completely in the public domain. So that means either the patent holders on Ogg would have to waive their rights or we need to, as a community, agree on something and either build from the ground up or drive the development of an already existing freely available codec. That would then guarantee that it was truly free and readily available to all without things like patents and licensing fees getting in the way.