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If you are interested in this event running Safari is no great hardship.
by diroussel 13y ago
If you are interested in this event running Safari is no great hardship.
- untog 13y agoSomehow I doubt HN would have the same reaction if MS forced people to use Internet Explorer to watch a video.
- philfreo 13y agoHardship? Of course not - it's right there in my dock. My point is more about open web standards and Apple not caring about them here.
- diroussel 13y agoDefinition: > "An open standard [1] is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it," Published standard: HTTP Live Streaming at IETF [2] See also: HTTP Live Streaming at apple.com [3] The real question is why have none of the other browsers gone on to implement what is a very efficient streaming technology. And HTTP live streaming is very web-like, there's not really any new technology there. Instead Firefox and Chrome put effort into WebRTC, which seems like a lot more work. Although I do accept that WebRTC is orthogonal to HTTP Live streaming. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-11 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming... [3] https://developer.apple.com/streaming/ https://developer.apple.com/streaming/
- philfreo 13y agoDidn't realize there was an actual standard being used here that simply wasn't supported by the other browsers.
- diroussel 13y agoOh and what standard live streaming should they have used?