HTML 5

YouTube takes step towards HTML 5 video with WebM uploads

by Kenny Hemphill on 20 April 2011 in News
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Google has announced that all new uploads to YouTube will be transcoded in the WebM format. In a blog post yesterday, YouTube software engineer James Zen explained that ‘We’ve already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on the site or nearly 30% of all videos into WebM.’

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iOS boost for web fonts

by Simon Aughton on 30 November 2010 in News
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Apple has enhanced support for web fonts with support for TrueType in the mobile version of Safari, following the iOS 4.2 update.

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Keeping an open mind

by Kenny Hemphill on 28 May 2010 in Apple software

Flash, as Steve Jobs is eager to remind us, is clearly not an open standard, despite Adobe’s very public claims to the contrary… The relationship between Apple and Adobe is cooling faster than a mid-May evening in the Cairngorms. And it seems neither party is in the mood to warm things up. Just in case [...]

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