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CBS Confirms Plans for Full HTML5-Based Video Offerings
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LOL
You when there maybe
What about Netflix? So many are jumping on the HTML5 bandwagon... why the delay from the likes of CBS, FOX and NBC? Well maybe NBC is out because of the Hulu connection.
Hopefully it will be "ALL", not just selected shows like The Big Bang not being abled to viewed on their current Flash based website...
I spend most of my day on a Fujitsu running W7 Pro, I wouldn't exactly say that Flash works 'well.'
Flash on windows works better than it does on OSX, but not that much better.
I use Click2Flash now after reading about it on these forums, it's vastly improved Safari's performance in certain applications.
I use Flashblock for FF when using my Fujitsu, also a very noticeable improvement in speed and performance.
I actually think that a lot of windows users are less discerning than Apple users. They just buy a computer they can afford at which ever time they are buying and accept that what is delivered is the experience they feel they should be having.
People interested enough to find and read computer related sites like this one are always going to be far more informed than people who never inquire.
1. Just because Jobs claims some bad things about Flash, we have no Flash on the iPhone or the iPad and this forum became a nasty little hatepad.
2. "CBS confirms PLANS for full HTML5-based video offerings". Plans. In the future. Starting in the fall. With obvious development stages and annoyances/limitations. Enjoy your iPad today, so you might enjoy one website in the future!
By the time, HTML5 will be anywhere near to completion and widespread use, who knows, what the internet will look like. Do we know, which tablets and other mobile devices will dominate the market? But for some childish reasons, people think that in a few years, everything will be the same, apart from HTML5, which will 'rock'.
3. Perhaps, Flash will develop a bit too. If Android can support Flash, the iPhone OS could too. Some people are in a bubble. Flash is not dead, it has more future ahead of it than Jobs in his current position.
4. Macrumors uses some Flash, MobileMe's 'Find my iPhone' page does it too. That 'iPad Ready' list of websites is pathetically short. Enjoy your broken internet as Steve Jobs intended.
2. "CBS confirms PLANS for full HTML5-based video offerings". Plans. In the future. Starting in the fall. With obvious development stages and annoyances/limitations. Enjoy your iPad today, so you might enjoy one website in the future!
By the time, HTML5 will be anywhere near to completion and widespread use, who knows, what the internet will look like. Do we know, which tablets and other mobile devices will dominate the market? But for some childish reasons, people think that in a few years, everything will be the same, apart from HTML5, which will 'rock'.
3. Perhaps, Flash will develop a bit too. If Android can support Flash, the iPhone OS could too. Some people are in a bubble. Flash is not dead, it has more future ahead of it than Jobs in his current position.
4. Macrumors uses some Flash, MobileMe's 'Find my iPhone' page does it too. That 'iPad Ready' list of websites is pathetically short. Enjoy your broken internet as Steve Jobs intended.
Hopefully it will be "ALL", not just selected shows like The Big Bang not being abled to viewed on their current Flash based website...
I think that's a production company/licensing issue because Two and a Half Men is the same way (same production company).
Mobile Me doesn't use Flash. None of Apple's Web sites have in years.
As for Macrumors, Arn has already commented in the feedback forum a few months back. The only Flash I've noticed on this site is the YouTube video embeds (which can be displayed in HTML 5 if you enable the YouTube beta cookie).
All can I say is that I have a major burn mark after using a MBP with the Hulu flash site.
Went to sleep with my laptop on my legs one night. Anytime I run a Flash site my MBP heats up... not so on my iPad...
With the runaway success of the iPad so far, Adobe should pack up it's bags and say good bye to Flash... Horay to open source here
I hope that you are planning to sue Apple for the bad cooling system on the laptop. The CPSC doesn't look kindly on products that injure their users during normal use.
Flash sucks before Jobs claimed that.
Who?
Why does the iPhone OS has to support Flash?
They don't have to include every site that doesn't use flash, y'know?
How is it "broken"?
First off I am not one to sue at the drop of the hat....
And in my case not sure "falling a sleep with a MBP" in my lap/legs would fall in normal use. But thanks
In the end any lawsuit would be against Adobe for offering an environment that allowed computers to overheat as they so. So far never had a heat issue in videos on the iPaD - GO FIGURE
I HAVE FOUND THE CURE FOR INSOMNIA!!! And it is this video.
Great news, but these two guys are as dull as a door nail. Hi, Steve. Hi, Mike. I'm just here to ask you a few questions in the most monotone voice known to man. Great, because I'm going to reply in the most unenthusiastic manner I can muster. Super, let's get star, Zzz...
Great news, but these two guys are as dull as a door nail. Hi, Steve. Hi, Mike. I'm just here to ask you a few questions in the most monotone voice known to man. Great, because I'm going to reply in the most unenthusiastic manner I can muster. Super, let's get star, Zzz...
Bummer. Apps are immensely better than sites. They're faster, cleaner, and designed specifically for the device. There's no checking graphic creation dates, reloading non cached background images and interface buttons. That stuff is always there, like a permanently downloaded site.
Strange... IIRC I can view Two and Half Men on the CBS site.. but not The Big Bang
Yeah they finally added Two and a Half Men. Big Bang Theory is not on iTunes either. Maybe Chuck Lorre is trying to sell syndication rights? Of all shows you would think it would be online.
LOL.
So, the vendor of any application that uses CPU power is liable to personal injury lawsuits - from Apple users.
ROTFLMAO.
Apple has some of the best if not the best cooled laptops around. You can't even hear the fans half the time unlike most Dell laptops out there. I never have a problem with heat when I'm using it on my lap. It's not like I'm editing movies with iMovie in bed on the battery. The only time it runs kind of warm is when I'm running Adobe Flash Player.
If you want badly cooled laptops, get an HP dv6000. Believe me I know for first hand experience. According to all my older friends, Apple hasn't had a badly cooled laptop since the 1G Mactels.
Metal gets hot, period.
CBS has absolutely no programming, but it's still going to help the overall content in the field
Yes, Flash is now dead, even though it's only been used for video streaming relatively recently?
*sigh*
Streaming video is by far the worst use of Flash:
http://www.scaleform.com/gamesusing
http://www.biteycastle.com/LotD.html
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Titch/level-up
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/459147
http://www.kongregate.com/games/DrNeroCF/fancy-pants-adventure-world-2
Developers who use Flash aren't real devs? Really?
So, yes to death of Flash for streaming videos and advertisements. Yes to more Flash improvements and optimizations. No to Flash dying off completely. Flash wasn't created for streaming video, and it won't die off if no one uses it to do so.
*sigh*
Streaming video is by far the worst use of Flash:
http://www.scaleform.com/gamesusing
http://www.biteycastle.com/LotD.html
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Titch/level-up
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/459147
http://www.kongregate.com/games/DrNeroCF/fancy-pants-adventure-world-2
Developers who use Flash aren't real devs? Really?
So, yes to death of Flash for streaming videos and advertisements. Yes to more Flash improvements and optimizations. No to Flash dying off completely. Flash wasn't created for streaming video, and it won't die off if no one uses it to do so.
The clip is in the Flash player because that's still the only technology that's available and working. There's still no browser available that fully supports HTML5 and there is not even yet a standard for H.264 video.
So soon we will have dozens of incompatible H.264 video formats - and we will have to pay license fees in order to use them. That's what I call a win! Not for the customers and users, of course, but for the patent holders.
All you people who love the idea of Flash being dead are seriously out of your mind and don't even understand what you're championing. Maybe you should do some thinking on your own once in a while instead of letting His Steveness do the job for you and parroting everything he preaches. There's a simple rule of thumb here: Whatever Steve Jobs champions will cost YOU guys money in the end. And he certainly will never champion a technology that's available free of charge for everyone.
I am pretty sure you could not post more erroneous information about H.264 even if you tried.
I'm not one to regurgitate sound bites but flash is junk!
Case in point, among many, Nike.com.
Has any brave soul ventured onto that flash ridden site?
So much fail!!!!
Even on my 2 ghz, 2 gigs of ram unibody macbook I find it a horrible user experience.
Anyone not wanting to move away from flash is a lazy SOB!
Case in point, among many, Nike.com.
Has any brave soul ventured onto that flash ridden site?
So much fail!!!!
Even on my 2 ghz, 2 gigs of ram unibody macbook I find it a horrible user experience.
Anyone not wanting to move away from flash is a lazy SOB!
Seriously, that's your example? Can you even tell what parts of that site are Flash and what aren't? Right click around on the main page a bit, the Flash bits blend seamlessly with the AJAX bits. Maybe there's something wrong with your Flash player? Try updating, or running Safari in 32 bit mode.
I was about to agree with you about the CPU usage, but I was accidentally looking at a Flash game I had exported in the background. Nike.com uses around 5% while idling, and maybe 40% when transitioning (better than using less and being choppy). So your Macbook should be able to eat that site for breakfast without breaking a sweat.
i didn't read all of the pages to see if anyone already noted the irony of the fact that the video talking about how they aren't using flash anymore is A FLASH VIDEO.
Call me back when HTML5 can be used to recreate the homestarrunner.com website.
See you in 2020.
Call me back when HTML5 can be used to recreate the homestarrunner.com website.
See you in 2020.