3D CSS Effects in Snow Leopard Safari, And More on Future of Video and Flash?
In the past, we've speculated that Apple's resistance to supporting Adobe's Flash on the iPhone and their efforts to add new features to HTML/CSS is, in part, to reduce their long term dependence on Flash.
Ajaxian points to an impressive demo by Charles Ying which shows off hardware accelerated 3D CSS Visual Effects that are now supported in Snow Leopard's Safari builds as well as the latest Webkit nightly builds. If you have either of these versions installed, you can view a live version yourself here. Otherwise, you can watch this video of the demo:
These new 3D effects have been proposed for standards inclusion. If successful, future browsers will also adopt these effects.
While these will help provide standards-based tools for accomplishing visual effects that have been the realm of Flash in the past, there has recently been a setback on efforts to standardize on a specific video playback format for HTML5. Video remains the most popular use for Flash on the web. Due to ongoing disagreements between Apple, Google and other web browser developers, the acceptance of a single video codec standard for HTML5 has been indefinitely delayed.
Ajaxian points to an impressive demo by Charles Ying which shows off hardware accelerated 3D CSS Visual Effects that are now supported in Snow Leopard's Safari builds as well as the latest Webkit nightly builds. If you have either of these versions installed, you can view a live version yourself here. Otherwise, you can watch this video of the demo:
These new 3D effects have been proposed for standards inclusion. If successful, future browsers will also adopt these effects.
While these will help provide standards-based tools for accomplishing visual effects that have been the realm of Flash in the past, there has recently been a setback on efforts to standardize on a specific video playback format for HTML5. Video remains the most popular use for Flash on the web. Due to ongoing disagreements between Apple, Google and other web browser developers, the acceptance of a single video codec standard for HTML5 has been indefinitely delayed.
"After an inordinate amount of discussions, both in public and privately, on the situation regarding codecs for video and audio in HTML5, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship," Hickson wrote. "I have therefore removed the two subsections in the HTML5 spec in which codecs would have been required, and have instead left the matter undefined."
Apple, of course, has been pushing H.264 and opposes the Ogg Theora alternative due to the potential patent claims in the future. Mozilla and Opera have their own issues with cost and licensing issues with H.264 and prefer Ogg Theora. The inability to come to an agreement means that there will be no accepted standard format for HTML5. As a result, Flash will likely remain the dominant format for online video for the time being.Top Rated Comments
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34 months ago
The MPEG group needs to give their stuff away or have it rendered obsolete by Flash and Silverlight.
34 months ago
In case anyone is wondering, the music is by Ratatat ('Track 01' off of '9 Beats'). And it f***ing rocks.
34 months ago
This is great. But the freakin' committee can't agree on a standard codec? WTF!
Best example of design by committee is a camel, they were trying for a horse!
Best example of design by committee is a camel, they were trying for a horse!
34 months ago
There are so many sites I can't view on my new 3G S, it's pathetic.
Apple really must implement Flash on the iPhone ASAP, or it will be the butt of jokes again, like with copy/paste.
Flash is A MUST, with over 95% adoption rate across platforms. It is the only HUGE weak spot left on the iPhone.
If I were the competition, I'd make ads showing Android (or WM) accessing fun FLASH sites and video, while the iPhone shows blank pages.
Apple really must implement Flash on the iPhone ASAP, or it will be the butt of jokes again, like with copy/paste.
Flash is A MUST, with over 95% adoption rate across platforms. It is the only HUGE weak spot left on the iPhone.
If I were the competition, I'd make ads showing Android (or WM) accessing fun FLASH sites and video, while the iPhone shows blank pages.
34 months ago
"If successful, future browsers will also adopt these effects."
Don't hold your breath! IE will always be way behind on this sort of thing. Look at the simple text-shadow effect in CSS. Up until recently, it was only compatible with Safari and to this day is not supported by any IE.
Don't hold your breath! IE will always be way behind on this sort of thing. Look at the simple text-shadow effect in CSS. Up until recently, it was only compatible with Safari and to this day is not supported by any IE.
34 months ago
This is great. But the freakin' committee can't agree on a standard codec? WTF!
I call that par for the course. Large companies almost never come to a complete agreement - expecially when their objectives are different.[ Read All Comments ]
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