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Five Years of YouTube and Forced Evolution
NakNak writes to mention that the DailyMaverick has a feature looking back at five years of YouTube, some of the massive changes that have been forced through as a result of its overwhelming popularity, and what changes might be necessary going forward. "Google, which bought YouTube less than two years after it was founded for what was then considered outrageously expensive $1.65 billion, does not want Microsoft or Apple (or anybody else) to own the dominant video format. So it has become the biggest early tester of HTML5. Your browser doesn't support HTML5? Google launches its own browser, Chrome. Need to use Internet Explorer at work because that's all your IT department supports? Google launches a Chrome framework that effectively subverts IE and makes it HTML5-compatible. The final blow will be the day that YouTube switches off Flash and starts streaming only to HTML5 browsers. On that day all browsers will be HTML5 compatible or they will perish in the flames of user outrage."
Yes, perish for lack of Flash, just like the Iphone is now.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
Checking today there are 3,180 videos matching the term "lighting farts". That and people reviving Rick Astley's career. It's a fun diversion, but you really have to wonder. About civilization.
Why is the title bar red?
Forced Evolution, duh!
Haven't you been paying attention?
coding is life
Like my boss, who owns an ISP, that does not know the difference between Java, JavaScript, and Flash (he calls them all Java). Or the difference between Limewire, Bittorrent, EDonkey, and any other P2P protocol (he calls them all Bittorrent).
The trap has been laid... *waits*
http://xkcd.com/326/
Insanity: voting in the same two parties over and over again and expecting different results
Good points, all. But my condolences to your "Shift" key -- oh, and the period, too. I wish them both a speedy recovery.
In case you are still able to cut and paste, please feel free to borrow some of mine in the meantime:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ..... ..... .....
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
And what about the weekly exploit or two? Flash has never missed a beat. Will browsers implementing HTML5 expose us to at least the same level of risk that Flash does?
Will HTML5 also cause my browser (even if it's just a sandboxed tab) to crash several times per day, like Flash does now? I sure hope so, otherwise the experience just wouldn't be the same.
Sadly, those features are missing from early versions of HTML5 browsers, but perhaps Microsoft will step up to the plate with HTML5+ Enterprise Edition Bonus Pack.
Not even the same ballpark. That's like needing to drive to Chicago for the weekend and your car has broken down. Your friend pipes up, "Hey, we can take a go-cart!"
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.