What is HTML5 Video?

“The recent history of the Financial Times is instructive. Last June, the company pulled its iPad and iPhone app from iTunes and launched a new version of its website written in HTML5, which can optimize the site for the device a reader is using and provide many features and functions that are applike. For a few months, the FT continued to support the app, but on May 1 the paper chose to kill it altogether.”

Publishers are moving away from distributing their content in App form because Apps cannot contain the entire web ecosystem of hyperlinks and social news sharing.  Publishers like the Financial Times and Technology review are now using CSS and HTML5 to directly target different screen sizes from their websites themselves.

via Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps – Technology Review.

Sencha, a company that develops JavaScript libraries, announced this morning the availability Sencha Touch 2, a major new version of the company’s framework for building mobile Web applications. The new version brings improved performance, broader platform support, and additional functionality.

via Sencha updates framework for building native-looking mobile Web apps.

Mozilla has opened it’s app marketplace for submissions.

via Joe Stagner: The Mozilla Marketplace is now open for app submissions.

Mozilla has partnered with Telephonica to bring their experimental Boot to Gecko mobile phone stack to market at 1/10th the price of an iPhone.

The device bots using the Linux Kernel to a very stripped down Android OS where HTML5 is the primary programming environment for everything from the home screen to the dialer to the applications and application market.

via Robert Nyman: Mozillas Boot to Gecko – The Web is the Platform.

A major update to vp8 has been released and is suggested for all users.

Core improvements include better support for live streaming and video conferencing with real time compression and concurrent multiple resolution encoding.

via VP8 Codec SDK “Duclair” Released.

Quality Assurance Testing with TestSwarm and QUnit

Kaltura’s HTML5 Media Library is continuously tested upon each commit to the svn repository. Testing is performed on Internet Explorer 7 through 9, Firefox 3.6 and the latest Firefox, the latest Google Chrome, Android 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x, the latest…
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Kaltura HTML5 Media Library v1.5 Released

We’re happy to announce the deployment of version 1.5 of the Kaltura HTML5 Video Library. This  release includes a number of enhancements in the playlist handler, the addition of QUnit tests for many player features and many additional plugins. This blog…
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Adobe to forgo Flash plug-in for mobile devices

“Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores.  We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser…
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The Open Video Conference 2011: Getting Things Done

The Open Video Conference is an annual event that brings together video creators, intellectual property scholars, and developers for a weekend of creating, remixing, and hacking. The conference was combined with the Foundations of Open Media Software workshop which attracted…
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