Industry News & Resources

  • May
    8

    “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.

  • Mar
    6

    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.

  • Feb
    28

    Mozilla has opened it’s app marketplace for submissions.

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

  • Feb
    27

    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.

  • Jan
    28

    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.

  • Jan
    26

    “It’s not just cross-device compatibility that makes ditching Flash a good idea. HTML5 is also less resource-intensive when playing back audio, and should exhibit better performance.”

    via SoundCloud Goes HTML5, Makes Non-Flash Audio Player Its Default.

  • Jan
    23

    Ars Technica

    via Mozilla demos MediaStream Processing, audio mixing in Firefox.

  • Dec
    19

     

     

    Roni Cohen gives us a github repository that demos how to use Kaltura cue points and .htaccess rewrites to give search engines and users links to any chapter within your videos.

    How To Increase Video SEO Using In-Video Chapters Driven By Cue-Points | Kaltura Community Blog.

  • Dec
    15

    “Android is finally an acceptable HTML5 platform. The hiccups, crashes and poor rendering seen with previous builds have mostly been eliminated. “Although still behind the current HTML5 gold standard of iOS5, Android 4.0 is night and day compared to previous versions,” Sencha reports.”

    via Galaxy Nexus A Step Up For Android HTML5 Performance.

  • Dec
    15

    The Finnish Broadcasting CEO, Lauri Kivinen, believes that HTML5 is the most robust solution to deliver video content to the three primary screens in consumer’s homes: HDTV, tablets, and mobile phones. Click through for the full interview from beet.tv.

    via Finnish Broadcast Chief: The Problems with Native Apps and Upside of HTML5.

HTML5 Video Content Repositories

Wikimedia Commons – A database of 6,251,355 (and counting) freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.  Check it out:  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Public Videos – a repository of open, original, high-quality, and royalty-free video footage that are released or waiting-to-be-released into the commons as public domain with the help of the website users.  Check it out:  http://alpha.publicvideos.org/

Pad.ma – short for Public Access Digital Media Archive – is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non- commercial use.  Check it out:  http://pad.ma/

Metavid.org — Metavid is a community driven archive of legislative video from both houses of the U.S. Congress, spanning from early 2006 to the present. The archive is searchable by speaker name, spoken text, date, metadata scraped from outside sources and user contributions. Check out http://metavid.org

What is HTML5?

HTML5 is a set of web standards being developed by the “Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group” (WHATWG). As of December 2009 all major browser vendors have participated to some degree in the standard’s process. The HTML5 standards process outlines many new features for more dynamic web applications and interfaces. One such component being specified and implemented is the video element.

The HTML5 video element is presently supported by Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome comprising about 33% of the overall browser market. The HTML5 video standard is also supported in mobile devices such as Apple’s iPhone and version 2 of the Google Android platform. Both of these popular mobile platforms don’t support Flash plugins and subsequently the video tag is the exclusive mechanism to distributed video in these mobile HTML browsers.