“Behind the scenes we have been working on HTML5 support,” Robert Sandie, Viddler co-founder and President, reports via The Viddler Blog.
Now, “it’s open for public beta for business and partner accounts,” Sandie reports. “[Uses] can convert account at viddler.com/html5.”
“This beta includes an additional iPhone/iPad encode as well as a non-javascript embed code that delivers flash first, HTML5 second,” Sandie reports. “As far as we know this embed code is first of it’s kind on a video platform, which is one of the reasons why this is starting as a beta.”
MacDailyNews Note: You Tube has been doing something similar (identifying iPhone OS use and delivering HTML5 H.264 video to those lucky users) for at least a few weeks now, but uses javascript code to do so. With the video below, non-iPhone OS users with the bloated, inefficient, proprietary Flash plug-in should get their CPUs pegged and their fans revving with the video delivered via lazy Adobe’s proprietary, inefficient Flash plug-in, while iPhone OS users (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) will see it via plug-in free, open standard HTML5.
Robert Sandie explains how Viddler’s HTML5 beta works:
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Have a nice day, lazy Adobe ingrates. 
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chris H.” for the heads up.]
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: 50+ million iPhone owners. They’re also not hitting 35+ million iPod touch users or 1+ million brand new iPad users. 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 MarketWatch to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• 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.
By the way, do not buy Adobe’s Photoshop Elements until you have tried Pixelmator’s free 30-day trial. We use Pixelmator daily.
