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  1. Re:Multi-Media on the Web is FUCKED by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2 · on Microsoft Going Its Own Way On Audio/Video Specification

    And now we have Microsoft wading in to offer what will surely be a typical Proprietary Solution only available to Microsoft Partners and Licensees.

    Did you even RTFS? It's so proprietary it was submitted to W3C for consideration.

  2. Re:MS aren't doing it for altruism anyway by oldlurker · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Apache Patch To Override IE 10's Do Not Track Setting

    Microsoft are setting DNT on Windows 8 (and by extension their phones and tablets) so that competing advertising services like Google et al are shut out of their ecosystem. I bet whatever terms and conditions pop up when a Windows 8 starts for the first time, or via those Bing apps means that the DNT setting don't apply to Microsoft itself.

    Actually, it seems IE10-team has a pretty independent focus on user experience. On my Windows 8 test machine it has proactively several times recommended to remove addins from Microsoft to speed up performance (from Bing, from Windows Live, from Office!). I'm guessing those other MS divisions must be livid. I know we've loved to make fun of IE for quite some time, but it is a good thing that IE10 is shaping up quite nicely (we don't want to replace "made for IE6" with "made for webkit", and you can see what more is coming at http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/

  3. Re:just one thing... by icebraining · · Score: 1 · on WebGL Flaw Leaves GPU Exposed To Hackers

    If you use Windows 7, there's an extension to play H.264 videos on Firefox using the system codec.

  4. Re:Standards people! by VertigoAce · · Score: 1 · on Gtk 3.2 Will Let You Run Applications In a Browser

    The approach the IE team has started taking for unstable standards is to release prototypes independently of the main browser. For example, the websockets prototype is here: http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/prototypes/available-for-download/websockets. My understanding is that there have been breaking changes in the websockets protocol spec fairly recently (to resolve security issues), so shipping an implementation for widespread use isn't a good idea until the spec stabilizes.

  5. This misses the really important news by hcdejong · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video

    From the link in TFS

    The Extension is based on a Firefox Add-on that parses HTML5 pages and replaces Video tags with a call to the Windows Media Player plug-in so that the content can be played in the browser.

    What we need is that add-on, but with calls to VLC instead of WMP. That would make the add-on multiplatform.

    It may not be the politically correct thing to wish for, but I'll take anything that replaces crappy Flash video on the OS X version of Firefox.

  6. Re:Bad research.... by calebpburns · · Score: 0 · on Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264

    The article ends with, "It will be interesting to see if major browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari will follow the suit and drop support for H.264."

    Firefox does not natively support the H.264 codec without plugins (i.e., Flash or WMP Firefox Plugin)

  7. Re:Won't be missed by oji-sama · · Score: 1 · on Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore

    Why does Firefox (or any browser) have to "support h.264 natively"? Why can't Firefox support h.264 through the use of a plugin just like they currently do for all video formats? I ask this as a serious question because the whole HTML 5 /h.264 debate doesn't seem to make any sense.

    What do you mean with can't support h.264 through plugin? Go visit Interopbridges from Microsoft for an example.