“The company made the announcement Tuesday at its MIX conference for Web developers, saying a platform preview for Internet Explorer 9 is ready for developers to kick the tires,” Chan reports. “‘We’re all in’ for HTML5, said Windows division President Steve Sinofsky.”
“‘We are really happy to see Microsoft catching up on standards and implementing things developers really like to use,’ said Chris Blizzard, director of evangelism at Mozilla, which has been building HTML5 standards into Firefox over several versions. ‘We’ve been frustrated that it’s taken a long time’ for Microsoft, but we’re happy to see they’re doing it.’ Blizzard said Microsoft’s platform preview does not include some key HTML5 features, such as support for playing video and audio without a plug-in and a drawing feature called Canvas,” Chan reports.
One of the challenges Microsoft faces is that HTML5 would compete with Silverlight, Microsoft’s Web software for video and animation online,” Chan reports. “‘When it gets approved, it can replace [Adobe] Flash or Silverlight,’ said Matt Rosoff, analyst at Kirkland-based independent research firm Directions on Microsoft. ‘Silverlight reverses HTML5.’ For now, Microsoft is pushing both at developers at the conference in Las Vegas.”
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MacDailyNews Note: Note to advertisers (including those who advertise via third-party ad networks and become, in effect, our advertisers): Your Flash-based ads are no longer reaching the most well-heeled customers online: iPhone owners. They’re also not hitting iPod touch users. And, very soon, iPad users won’t be seeing them, either. If you care about reaching people with discretionary income, you might want to consider dumping your flash-based ads and moving to a more open format that people with money and the will to spend it can actually see.
Help kill Adobe’s Flash:
• Ask CNBC to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• Contact Hulu and ask them to offer HTML5 video via email:
• Ask ESPN360 to offer HTML5 video instead Flash via their feedback page here.
• Join YouTube’s HTML5 beta here.
• On Vimeo, click the “Switch to HTML5 player” link below any video.
Jilion releases SublimeVideo HTML5 video player, no browser plugin required – February 05, 2010
Google’s YouTube begins HTML5 Video Player beta – January 21, 2010
Google says ‘bye to Gears, hello to HTML5; preps Chrome browser for Apple’s Mac – December 01, 2009
With these articles today about M$ following Apple’s lead on HTML5 and the “limitations” for their phone OS, when is Redmond going to just license OS X and be done with it?
Microsoft ought to fix up other bugs… ah heck, just move off to webkit Microsoft
Yes, please… everyone resist and avoid Silverlight as the last thing we need is ANOTHER proprietary technology, especially from Microsoft.
Why try to get rid of one invasive and oft annoying technology (Flash) to then embrace and utilize another?
Just another nail in Adobe’s coffin
Hear that loud “PSSSSSHHHH” sound? That’s hundreds of Adobe employees simultaneously p*ssing their pants.
Up until today, Adobe could tell web developers that the most-used web browser didn’t support HTML5. Now that that’s no longer the case, Flash is going to be a lot harder sell, long term.
——RM
No flash ads here… “Adblock” for Firefox. The only way to surf.
Just so long as MS hops on the bandwagon, and doesn’t try to hijack it.
What can we do to get Netflix to drop Silverlight for HTML5?
Well, look at that. Good for Microsoft. I hope this is for real… I’m sick of catering to IE for my website design.
I use Safari without flash. I’m okay with that.
But anoying, Safari shows often a dialog, missing flash plugin.
Is there a way, maybe user-css, to send flash commands
to Nirwana, so that the dialog window not appears anymore?
I have a sense lately that MS is trying to gain favor with Apple. Ballmer hasn’t said anything stupid about Apple lately. MS makes no negative comments about Apple’s lawsuit against Android. And now IE 9 is going to support HTML5 rather than Flash.
I smell an alliance in the wind.
The result will be that Apple takes the home market, MS keeps the big business market, they split the small business market, and then devote their joint resources to stamping out the Googles and Adobes of the world.
If Bing becomes the default search engine on Apple devices, then I think the alliance will be solidified, at least until Google is knocked down a notch or two.
Microsoft is doing this for one reason and ONE reason only…so they can attempt to derail the “standard” before it becomes ubiquitous. Microsoft shouldn’t be ALLOWED to create an HTML5 browser! Fuck ’em and their legacy of shitty proprietary technologies…
Hey let’s keep the space free of junk. Let’s find a way for advertisers to either provide value i.e. Pandora like apps or pay us for wasted bandwidth.
I find the current ms applications puzzling as they do not have File, Edit pull down menu’s. It’s like making a sports car driver use automatic transmition, just ugly. So I expect nothing less than ms to hijack and detail HTML 5 like they have done for the last 15+ years.
Thanks MDN Take. Thanks for doing ur best to bring more advertisers to my mobile experience. That’s really what I’ve been missing. What r u possibly thinking?
This whole Flash vs. HTML5 brainwashing campaign is a mindnumbingly ignorant discussion. Here is some food for thought for those who have allowed their brains to be turned off remotely by stupid propaganda like MDN’s ‘Kill Flash’ crap:
1. Killing Flash will instantly and automagically make the web free of annoying ad banners !
Uh, no, they will just be replaced by annoying HTML5 ad banners doing the same thing. And to boot, it will be much harder to block the ad banners since they are now regular HTML content, not a plugin that can be very easily blocked with excellent plugins like ClickToFlash.
2. Flash is only used for creating annoying ad-banners.
Uh, no, it is also an excellent rich-internet-application development environment, far superior to HTML4/5/6…. Try building smth like photoshop.com with HTML. I have a bunch of very happy clients using Flash/Flex applications I have developed for them that can be accessed in any browser on any OS that has the Flash plugin, and the experience is identical no matter what browser/OS you are using. I am not talking about web sites here, I’m talking about database frontend applications. Developing such apps with Flash/Flex takes about 20% of the time it takes to do it with HTML and the apps are much easier to use than corresponding HTML apps would be. I’ve been a developer for 20+ years so I have some experience to back this up with.
3. HTML5 will be able to replace everything Flash is used for today. Hence, Flash will not be needed any more.
Uh, wrong, HTML5 is not going to replace all the Flash games out there any time soon, and there are a lot of them. The HTML5 technology that relates to drawing and animation is far from complete and is very poorly supported or not supported at all by the browser vendors – Microsoft’s IE9 which is still semi-vaporware doesn’t even support the relevant parts of the HTML5 spec. We are many, many years away from a such a time where anything created with Flash today can be created with HTML.
So, as much as I am an Apple fanboy and am usually awed by Steve Jobs’ every breath, move and utterance, I’m not with Apple on this ‘kill Flash’ crap. Time spent on that would be better spent on pushing/helping Adobe to improve Flash and possibly open it up more to make it less proprietary (allthough it is open to a large extent despite popular belief).
So folks, switch on the little gray cells for a few seconds and practice some critical thinking.
Cheers,
Hordur Thordarson
Apple fanboy / Developer
Internet exlporer (sadly) holds around 60% of the web browser market and if it rejects flash, then flash is going to die…
Ps: the stat provided is actualy pretty old, so idunno how accurate I am. I use safari and don’t really check on other browsers…
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