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Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5

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Re: Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5

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Post by dingaling »

cornedor wrote: post #30
flyinghamster wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could this be IPv6-related? I've run my own server for a long time, but when I spun up a new VPS and enabled IPv6, I suddenly couldn't send mail to Comcast customers. It seems that the single default IPv6 address fell into a privately-blacklisted /64. I was able to work around it by firewalling Comcast's IPv6 MX hosts, but getting my own /64 was the real fix. On the other hand, I don't know anyone with an @some-micro…

A college of my has struggled days with this issue, gmail wouldn't accept any mail send from a IPv6, ended up disabling IPv6 at the end. It seems like google only uses IPv6 for internal mail's, sending a mail to another account sends them using IPv4. Even Facebook, Microsoft etc still use IPv4 for their email's.

Google do of course use IPv6 externally, but require rDNS for all inbound IPv6 SMTP sessions. Without that set for your MTA's host they'll reject immediately.

Re: Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5

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franciscop wrote: post #17

> DRM is a hugely important part of the online video workflow and HTML5 offers a very useful tool with Encrypted Media Extensions. DRM has never been important for online video workflow and it's only useful in the way a walled garden is useful... it will require that each pair of browser-website (with EME) negotiate before allowing it, basically making it impossible for smaller browsers to become useful at all

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Re: Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5

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Post by bitmapbrother »

soccerdave wrote: post #3
cmdrfred wrote: post #2

Why are the top ten sites exempt?

Because conveniently several of them are Google properties. If their sites weren't top 10, but top 20, then we would see the top 20 sites exempt.

YouTube is the only Google property on the list. In fact, there are more Amazon properties than Google. So the "point" you were trying to make didn't work out.

Re: Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5

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Post by maxerickson »

kuschku wrote: post #32
maxerickson wrote: post #19

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Why would they build html5 versions of their properties and then serve flash versions to their html5 browser?

Because they don’t have html5 versions of all of their properties? several of them are still flash-only, for example, Google Finance.

That's not a response to anything I said.

My point is that they are building html5 versions of many of their sites (like Youtube, probably the biggest site supporting html5). Why would they care about serving the old flash versions of those sites to their html5 browser?

I agree that they have not moved all of their properties in lockstep over to html5. But I think Youtube supporting html5 provides more information about their motivations than the number of domains they are putting on the default whitelist.

Re: Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5

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Post by daenney »

ericzawo wrote: post #36
slederer wrote: post #27

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We did tests here and got down to 8 seconds end to end delay, including transcoding. but also HTTP2.0 push will be super interesting here.

Wow, impressive! I'm waiting for the day where my internet stream is 'Live' like my television is 'live.'

Though not imposed by the technology most of your live TV isn't actually live. There's a thing known as the broadcast delay or the seven seconds delay that a lot of broadcasters use to beep out profanities or do live subtitles and other alterations.

Re: Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5

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Post by ramy_d »

ericzawo wrote: post #36
slederer wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We did tests here and got down to 8 seconds end to end delay, including transcoding. but also HTTP2.0 push will be super interesting here.

Wow, impressive! I'm waiting for the day where my internet stream is 'Live' like my television is 'live.'

I did a cursory search out of curiosity: TV has a 7 second delay they add themselves to filter content. The broadcast itself is pretty much instant. It's impressive.
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