The Trials and Tribulations of HTML Video in the Post-Flash Era
Adobe reversed course on its Flash strategy after a recent round of layoffs and restructuring, concluding that HTML5 is the future of rich Internet content on mobile devices. Adobe now says it doesn’t...
View ArticleMozilla Demos MediaStream Processing, Audio Mixing in Firefox
Mozilla is drafting a proposal for a new web standard called MediaStream Processing that introduces JavaScript APIs for manipulating audio and video streams in real time. The specification is still at...
View ArticleFirefox 10 Arrives With New Dev Tools and Full-Screen API
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 10. The new version of the open source web browser includes a handful of improvements and new features. The browser’s built-in tools for web developers got a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Touts Plugin-Free Web, Offers Desktop Fallback for Flash
Microsoft’s new version of Internet Explorer has barred browser plugins in the Metro environment. But Microsoft has revealed a method that plugin-dependent websites can use to leap over Metro’s walls...
View ArticleAdobe Confirms: No Flash for Chrome on Android
Google issued a beta release of Chrome for Android earlier today. The browser provides support for modern web standards and includes a number of compelling features that aren’t available in the...
View ArticleChrome 17 Released, Will Preload Autocompleted URLs as You Type
Google has just released Chrome version 17, which brings several minor enhancements to the company’s web browser — including a new web address preloading feature and improved protection against...
View ArticleFirst Look: Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko Mobile Platform and Gaia UI
Mozilla launched a new project last year called Boot2Gecko (B2G) with the aim of developing a mobile operating system. The platform’s user interface and application stack will be built entirely with...
View ArticleTelefónica Working With Mozilla to Build Open Web-Centric Smartphone
Mozilla announced today that it has partnered with mobile network operator Telefónica to deliver a complete mobile operating system built around standards-based web technologies. They plan to bring...
View ArticleFacebook and Others Aim to Make the Mobile Web a Competitive App Platform
A coalition of 30 technology companies hopes to turn the web into a competitive platform for building mobile applications. They have launched a Core Mobile Web Platform (coremob) community group...
View ArticleIdealism vs. Pragmatism: Mozilla Debates Supporting H.264 Video Playback
The HTML5 video element promised to be a game-changer for internet media publishing. It provided a vendor-neutral standards-based mechanism for conveying video content on the web without the need for...
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