HTML5 Will Be a Game Changer
The Apple iPad was released today and companies are interested in new and innovative ways to allow consumers to view video content on these multimedia machines. Most of the current computing technology makes use of flash players, but Apple and Adobe don’t get along quite so well. On the contrary, Apple thinks that Adobe software crashes too easily and consumes way too much memory.
Considering the facts, Apple’s argument makes sense. The process for creating a flash video with Adobe’s Flash CS4 is a relatively straightforward process, but the code used to create such a video takes up 318 lines. Using HTML5 to complete a similar task would only take one. Unnecessary lines of code is one of the factors that contributes to the high crash rate that Apple is referring to.
HTML5 is still relatively new technology, but it will have a significant impact on the way content is viewed in web browsers in the future. Jeff Whatcott from Brightcove, a video publishing platform, says that “HTML5 is about video in the browser, and today it is primarily about video in web browsers on mobile platforms like Apple iPad, iPhone, and others.”
Via TheHuffingtonPost.
April 3, 2010 4:51 pm 
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