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H.264 video is now (slightly more) royalty free 3 Sep 2010 | 08:15 am
Last week the MPEG-LA announced that it will not charge any royalties for streaming H.264 encoded video in the future. That does change much from the current situation. A couple of years ago the MPEG-...
Problems with HTML5 video codec detection 26 Jun 2010 | 05:01 am
In case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft released a new preview release of Internet Explorer 9 with all kinds of great goodies we have been waiting for, including HTML5 video support. I did notice tha...
HTML5 test updated: how well does your browser support HTML5 now? 9 Jun 2010 | 09:08 am
Earlier today I’ve released a new version of the HTML5 test. The goal is still the same: to show an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications....
Microsoft talks big about HTML5 but shows very little 17 Mar 2010 | 07:09 am
I’ve just downloaded the first Internet Explorer 9 platform preview and tried out the demos. And frankly I am confused. They mention HTML5 all the time in the press release and on the IE blog. There a...
Ogg Theora: 3 – H.264: 3 17 Mar 2010 | 06:25 am
With the revelation that Internet Explorer 9 will support HTML5 video the score is tied. Opera and Mozilla are pushing for Ogg Theora. Safari and Internet Explorer will support H.264 and finally Chrom...
Microsoft intends to ship Internet Explorer 7 with Windows Phone 7 16 Mar 2010 | 10:07 pm
Today Microsoft released the SDK for Windows Phone 7. It includes an emulator with a build of Internet Explorer. The useragent reported by the emulator is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows Ph...
The HTML5 Test 10 Mar 2010 | 12:14 am
Want to know how well your browser supports HTML5? Try the HTML5 test and find out. Points are awarded for every HTML5 feature that is supported. Added together these points give a total score between...
Opera Mini for the iPhone 11 Feb 2010 | 03:15 am
Opera announced that they ported their Opera Mini browser to the iPhone and will be submitting it to the App Store. It isn’t the first third-party browser for the iPhone but all others were based on t...
95% of statistics are completely made up 9 Feb 2010 | 11:35 pm
After Vimeo announced that they would be support the H.264 codec for the HTML5 video beta test, Silvia Pfeiffer published a completely ridiculous article in which she claims that Ogg Theora is a bette...
Re: The iPhone obsession 9 Feb 2010 | 09:00 am
I’m afraid PPK has gone off the deep end again. While I value his work on documenting desktop browser quirks and mobile browsers immensely, it is getting more and more difficult to take him serious wh...
