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YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

awjr writes "YouTube have pretty much come down on the side of Flash having major issues with the lack of features that the HTML5 <video> tag has and may never have."

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  1. Stop raining on our OSS parade with your "facts" by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is the video tag in HTML5 a kludge? Yes. Is it more an ideal than a practical implementation? Sure. Can it compete with a commercial product that has been an accepted part of the web for over 10 years now? Perhaps not. Is it poorly implemented in most modern browsers, with no agreed upon video codec common to any two of them? Yep. Would it be getting any attention at all if Steve Jobs hadn't used it as part of his cheap excuse to block free flash apps from his iControlU line of products? Not likely.

    But all that's missing the point. The point is that it's *OPEN* and not under the control of any nasty for-profit corporation. And that makes it superior. Who *cares* if it doesn't work worth a damn in actual practice?

    --
    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  2. Grammar Goliath ONLINE by dhermann · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "YouTube have pretty much come down on the side of Flash having major issues with the lack of features that the HTML5 tag has and may never have."

    1. "have": YouTube is an single corporate entity and not plural
    2. "having major issues": dangling modifier, does YouTube or Flash have the issues?
    3. "pretty much": use this phrase if you're a 13-year-old girl texting, not when talking about the news
    4. "has and may never have": contradictory, how can the tag have something now but may never have the same something later?
    5. "tag has": has what? The major issues, the lack of features, or the major issues with the lack of features?
    6. "Come down on the side of Flash": misleading wording, it sounds like YouTube has actually decided against Flash?

    I guess my point is that this sentence is terrible. How did you possibly allow this, /. mod?