HTML 5 - TVC set free?

[L.Rawlins]

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'When more browsers and developers support HTML5's audio, video, and interaction standards, the idea of the web as the universal app store—for smartphones, for desktops and laptops, Windows, Mac, and Linux—gets closer to reality.'

The linked article provides an informative overview of the hotly-anticipated web standards that look set to abolish client-side codec dependencies. Such tantalising talk potentially allowing TVC to transcend rather than transcode - desktop to device.

The touted geo-location functionality alone stands to make BBC and ITV regional programming variations a much more plausible prospect for the future. This combined with regionalised advertising could increase revenue potential where more 'ad space' can be sold bespoke to each users locale. This may already be happening with the channels as they stand when you take into account each channels tailored demographic... but a thought worth sharing nonetheless.

Exciting stuff.

[TVC_Colwal]

Hmmm, interesting and I wonder how long this will take???

[L.Rawlins]

Some of the draft specifications are already incorporated into some the most popular desktop and device browsers around, as referenced in the article.

[TVC_Colwal]

Some of the draft specifications are already incorporated into some the most popular desktop and device browsers around, as referenced in the article.

Don't get me wrong I am all for this as it sounds great, but I read "Firefox and Safari partially support it", which TBH sounds like when MS go for a final release of their software, which is always partially finished

[TVC_H4U]

Your not wrong it will be a big benefit to TVC if we take it up, but as Colin is saying. Its not widely supported at the moment, give it a few years this will be brilliant.

Saying that if we did use

[L.Rawlins]

It's not widely supported because it's not technically 'out' yet!

This has been gobbled up by the developers just as 802.11n was in the early days of 'Draft N'. So everyone's using it to some degree prior to any 'official' standardisation having been ratified. I only mention it now in the hope that the Devs. seek to tinker, if they haven't already.

'Partial support' in this sense is indicative of the partial standards that exist so far Colin! So your MS analogy of a 'finished product gone awry' is a little premature!

[TVC_Colwal]

It's not widely supported because it's not technically 'out' yet!

This has been gobbled up by the developers just as 802.11n was in the early days of 'Draft N'. So everyone's using it to some degree prior to any 'official' standardisation having been ratified. I only mention it now in the hope that the Devs. seek to tinker, if they haven't already.

[HLIGHT]'Partial support' in this sense is indicative of the partial standards that exist so far Colin! So your MS analogy of a 'finished product gone awry' is a little premature![/HLIGHT]

We will see Mr Rawlins

[L.Rawlins]

Trust the fungus.

If you knew where that quote originated, taste dictates you shoot yourself.

[TVC_Colwal]

Trust the fungus.

If you knew where that quote originated, taste dictates you shoot yourself.

It's quite fortunate that I had to look it up and do not have the same impressionable memory that you appear to have of this

[danielth]

isn't the webapp on the iphone built on HTML 5?