I'm all for open standards and less patents, but H.264 videos and H.264 decoding hardware has been used everywhere for almost a decade now. Even if something free and open-source had been able to replace it, we're on the verge of switching to H.265 which is about twice as good as H.264.
Either it will never work, or it's going to create a sub-atomic black hole that will eat up half of their installation, or it's going to create a soccer ball-sized black hole that could have destroyed our entire solar system if it weren't for the fact that aliens will stop them 3.14159265359 seconds before the event.
But is it really Firefox's fault? I mean, while I also think that Firefox is a memory hog compared to others, at least on OS X, something did change over the years: the weight of web pages.
It used to be that most website would only require a few dozen kilobytes, or a few hundreds at the most. But these days, people who think they understand responsive design take the easy way out and just send 4 megapixel images and let the browsers resize them as needed.
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I wonder how many Slashdot reader will even understand that joke, and that makes me sad.
No video for you.
NEXT!
I wasn't talking about China.
Another stupid idea by the Firefox team, then.
Isn't there patents on GIF and JPEG? And the web is full of images in those two formats anyway.
I'm all for open standards and less patents, but H.264 videos and H.264 decoding hardware has been used everywhere for almost a decade now. Even if something free and open-source had been able to replace it, we're on the verge of switching to H.265 which is about twice as good as H.264.
That's why I know I'm safe. I use OS X, which is a closed-source OS. And since it's closed, the government doesn't have access to it.
I love the smell of bad logic in the morning.
You don't have to keep track of Firefox version. By this time next month they'll announce FireFox 40, with H.265 support.
Always really preview before clicking submit.
Can we finally use the the <video> tag with H.264 files and just forget about the rest?
Can we finally use the tag with H.264 files and just forget about the rest?
Or even the illusion of one.
Either it will never work, or it's going to create a sub-atomic black hole that will eat up half of their installation, or it's going to create a soccer ball-sized black hole that could have destroyed our entire solar system if it weren't for the fact that aliens will stop them 3.14159265359 seconds before the event.
So I said, "Super-collider? I just met her!" [audience laughs] And then they built the super collider. - Humorbot 5.0
It does prove, however, that the world is being taken over by pod people.
We'd pick you up but there's already four people in the car.
Nah, they tried that before and the motors just keep colliding.
It does, but only to the HIV virus.
But is it really Firefox's fault? I mean, while I also think that Firefox is a memory hog compared to others, at least on OS X, something did change over the years: the weight of web pages.
It used to be that most website would only require a few dozen kilobytes, or a few hundreds at the most. But these days, people who think they understand responsive design take the easy way out and just send 4 megapixel images and let the browsers resize them as needed.
Just reverse the wires.
Aren't those the flat black things that were played with a needle or something?
Says the AC with Internet access.
Is this a comment about Netflix or The Force?
Deal with it.
Faster CPUs, better solar panels, radiation shielding and drinkable water for all the world.
Graphite. Is there anything it can't do?
It's MIT Prime, a.k.a. MIT: The Next Generation.