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Before somebody complains: "Why is this not for Chrome too, its from Youtube..." Chrome has a different philosophy, it has a focus on speed and isn't adding JS
by sek 15y ago
Before somebody complains: "Why is this not for Chrome too, its from Youtube..."
Chrome has a different philosophy, it has a focus on speed and isn't adding JS features before Apple did it.
- dchest 15y agoUm... like WebGL, Speech input API, IndexedDB, desktop notifications, FileReader?
- sek 15y agoSafari supports WebGL and the rest isn't a JS feature.
- mbrubeck 15y agoUmm, 3D video isn't any more of a "JS feature" than the many scriptable APIs that dchest listed. Safari has not shipped WebGL support; it's available only in pre-release builds. (Meanwhile it's been on Chrome's stable channel for three months.) It's absolutely not true that Chrome avoids introducing new features and APIs before Safari or other browsers. All of the major browsers have pioneered specific new web platform features. For example, Safari with CSS 3D transforms and touch events, Chrome with Web Notifications and the Filesystem API, Mozilla with ES5 Strict Mode and Geolocation, Opera with the hashchange event and datalist and HTML5 form validation, IE with XMLHttpRequest and CSS3 calc()... Eventually, the features that work well should become standards and be supported by as many browsers as possible. That's exactly what is happening or will hopefully happen with all of these examples, including 3D video. (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla.)
- asadotzler 15y agoChrome simply hasn't implemented the WebM container changes and rendering changes (YET) for this to work there. I can't imagine that they won't soon enough.