Honestly, I think I post more on facebook than I do on my own blog. True to form, I practice more than I preach, so writing on a blogger site is not too frequent for me.
On the immediate front, we've had some internal debate amongst the consultants at New Toronto Group about the merits and challenges of HTML 5 . For me as a developer and instructor showing people how to employ video on the Internet, HTML 5 and video has a number of hurdles to overcome:
The video is still progressively downloaded. This means that the user has to wait for the content to be almost completely be downloaded before the video can be played back. This is not the case when you involve streaming servers like Adobe's Flash Media Server where only the content that needs to be immediately displayed is sent to the user's web browser.
Because of the progressive download limitation, this means that the current implementation of HTML 5 and video also has a restricted seeking capability. For example, you cannot seek to content that has not been downloaded, right? In a true streaming scenario, when you seek to a specific timeframe of video, you would immediately see that point in the video.
As well, if the content needs to be downloaded to the user's cache, this obviously becomes an intellectual copyright issue, as I could then take the content and do what I want with it. All those media people concerned with protecting their assets would be up in arms over that.
So I will wait and see for now. HTML 5 is worth looking into, if you don't have any HTML experience at all...early adoption won't do you any favours in my opinion.
...on another note, it looks like New Toronto Group's blog site is now online. I might post an article or there too... look at this link - http://www.newyyz.com/NtgSite/blog/index.php
Monday, January 11, 2010
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