InfoQ: Microsoft Tips the Scale in Favor of HTML 5

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Submission + - InfoQ: Microsoft Tips the Scale in Favor of HTML 5 (infoq.com)

Submitted by aabelro on Friday April 30, 2010 @03:57AM

aabelro writes: Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft, has announced that IE9 will use only the H.264 standard to play HTML 5 video. Microsoft seems to have become very committed to HTML 5, while Flash loses even more ground. The announcement came the same day Steve Jobs detailed why Apple does not accept Flash on iPhone and iPad.

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