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H.264 already won.
It's used in Blu-Ray players and all kinds of devices.
Btw Microsoft thinks getting 55 acid3 score is good enough.
I've had literally 6 page views from IE 6 on my own site in the past 3 months (out of a total in the high 5 figures), and maybe 8% of my hits are IE7/8.
But that's for a very technical site with a web-savvy audience. Some clients are getting anywhere from 60-80% IE, and as high as 25% of that from IE 6. Still. *weeps*
And I thought I have a low IE6 count...
That was the past 7 days. Fluctuates of course.
H.264 was ment to compete with wmv and ogg for the HTML5 video tag. Now it would seems to be a two horse race between h.264 and ogg though ogg only has Firefox compared to h.264 which has Safari, Opera, Chrome, and IE9
Firefox will lose that battle. Youtube is using H.264 and that won't change when they move over to their HTML 5 version.
Microsoft should just give up and endorse Firefox. That would be the best way to go.
I would much rather webkit.
I just wish the W3C had to inspect browsers before granting them access to the internet just like cars have to be inspected before being able to drive on the highways legally.
I'm sure then MS would find a way to make ie9 get 100/100 in Acid3.
I'm sure then MS would find a way to make ie9 get 100/100 in Acid3.
I did a fourth-month project in LA recently where we had to support IE6. After that experience, I have decided that I will not, ever again, support IE6 in any way, shape or form. In fact, I won't be supporting ANY version of Internet Explorer. If my code works in it, great. But I'm not going out of my way to make it work if it doesn't, when it works fine in FF, Chrome, Safari, etc.
I currently run a few web message forums on code I wrote myself, dating back to 2003. I'm in the (slow) process of rewriting it to Web 2.0 standards, and I've already announced that IE will not be supported in the new version. Most of my users have wholeheartedly agreed, fortunately.
Since Yahoo and Google dumped IE6 support, it's a good first step at ridding the 'net of that monstrosity.
I can't even begin to tell you about my complete and utter HATRED of Microsoft and their thinly-veiled attempts at strong-arming the Internet into their way of doing things. I switched to the Mac after my fresh new Windows 7 install bluescreened on me five times in a month and a half, the last one causing me to have to reinstall the OS. Then it bluescreened two more times soonafter, and that was enough to make me move.
Rob
I currently run a few web message forums on code I wrote myself, dating back to 2003. I'm in the (slow) process of rewriting it to Web 2.0 standards, and I've already announced that IE will not be supported in the new version. Most of my users have wholeheartedly agreed, fortunately.
Since Yahoo and Google dumped IE6 support, it's a good first step at ridding the 'net of that monstrosity.
I can't even begin to tell you about my complete and utter HATRED of Microsoft and their thinly-veiled attempts at strong-arming the Internet into their way of doing things. I switched to the Mac after my fresh new Windows 7 install bluescreened on me five times in a month and a half, the last one causing me to have to reinstall the OS. Then it bluescreened two more times soonafter, and that was enough to make me move.
Rob
I find it ironic that 5 years ago I had to go to great lengths to persuade my colleagues that the extra effort to support Firefox or Safari was worthwhile... and now many of them need persuading to support IE 7-8 -- even though not supporting it could drive away half their user base.
That is because in the past people wrote code the IE way and then ported it to more standards compliant browsers.
Now people write code in a standards compliant way and port it to IE.
People have just changed the way they look at being standards compliant and Microsoft haven't caught up with the times yet.
I am also crazy for IE 9.I am really thankful to cybercore for sharing those newest features of IE 9.Those are simply cool.The feature which make me happy is CSS Support.So many of us get trouble of CSS in IE 7.I hope that now we will not have more issue regarding to css.