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Thursday 18 March 2010
 Number  1937
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Subjects for today
 
1   Microsoft to support HTML in IE9 : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
2   Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs : Ian Manners" <deadmail>

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Date:  Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:13:55 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:   Microsoft to support HTML in IE9

While, we will never get Internet Explorer for OS/2 - it's good to see 
HTML5 support spreading as it allows for video playback from the Browser 
itself (Firefox in our case) without needing a plugin such as flash. 
Unfortunately they only support h264 video (with its licensing issues) 
not Ogg Theora that Firefox supports. But in general the direction is 
good as HTML5 spreads across more websites, it should make web browsing 
more compatible across OS platforms.


Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:04 PM PDT

 From Gizmodo 
<http://gizmodo dot com/5494574/internet-explorer-9-a-fresh-start-with-html5> -

Microsoft have just demo'd at MIx its latest browser, the Internet 
Explorer 9, which features HTML5 support (HTML5 video!), 
hardware-accelerated 2D graphics, and a totally new JavaScript engine 
but no XP support.

Read the details here 
<http://gizmodo dot com/5494574/internet-explorer-9-a-fresh-start-with-html5>.

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

eComStationAustralia podcast http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com or iTunes

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Date:  Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:12:11 +1100 (EDT)
From:  "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Subject:   Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs

<http://news.slashdot dot org/story/10/03/17/1935200/Wikipedias-Assault-On-Pate
nt-Encumbered-Codecs>

"The Open Video Alliance is launching a campaign today called Let's Get
Video on Wikipedia asking people to create and post videos to Wikipedia
articles (good, encyclopedia style videos only!). Because all video must
be in patent-free codecs (theora for now), this will make Wikipedia by far
the most likely site for an average internet user to have a truly free and
open video experience. The campaign seeks to 'strike a blow for freedom'
against a wave of h.264 adoption in otherwise open HTML5 video
implementations."

Cheers
Ian Manners
http://www.os2site dot com/

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