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If anything is sailing up to be the new IE6 it is Google's Chrome. Like MS advocated vbscript instead of javascript, Google is trying to replace javascript with

by sovande 15y ago

If anything is sailing up to be the new IE6 it is Google's Chrome. Like MS advocated vbscript instead of javascript, Google is trying to replace javascript with a non-standard language called dart. Instead of supporting H.264 for video, Google pushes WebM which is not so open after all and no-one support.

eurleif 15y ago
>Like MS advocated vbscript instead of javascript, Google is trying to replace javascript with a non-standard language called dart. ...which can compile to JavaScript to preserve compatibility.
nextparadigms 15y ago
How is WebM "not open"? It's clearly more open than h.264, and it's open source and free - which you'd think is the ideal for the web going forward. Chrome, Firefox, Opera support WebM, so that's 50% of the web browser market share right there. If Youtube would default to WebM, and let Flash as fallback for now, it would have a huge effect on WebM's adoption, much more than Apple ever had with h.264 versus Flash.
MatthewPhillips 15y ago
> Instead of supporting H.264 for video, Google pushes WebM which is not so open after all Citation needed. > and no-one support. Chrome, Opera, Firefox support it.