iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
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#2Holy shit. That is the coolest thing
Re: iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
#3Speaking of Apple website updates, I am surprised that they have never offered a responsive design for their apple.com site where you buy iPhones and iPads. Every app they make is designed differently for the phone or the iPad, but not the website.
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#4In short, Apple don't want their demo videos to be easily downloaded and viewed?
Re: iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
#5> Apple's website needs to work on all major browsers
That doesn't seem true. The second-most-prominent links on the iPhone and iPad sites are to videos that only play in Quicktime. If they wanted the site to work everywhere, they'd use a format those browsers can natively play.
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#6I'm not sure if I should be impressed by this. From a technical standpoint, it seems quite clever and unique, but it also seems like a lot of work just to avoid using a tag.
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#7I'm not sure if I should be impressed by this. From a technical standpoint, it seems quite clever and unique, but it also seems like a lot of work just to avoid using a tag.
As noted in the post, iOS devices will only do video tags fullscreen.
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#8I'm not sure if I should be impressed by this. From a technical standpoint, it seems quite clever and unique, but it also seems like a lot of work just to avoid using a tag.
As noted in the post, iOS devices will only do video tags fullscreen.
I just tried on my friend's iPod and the animation doesn't play there anyway (it just stays on the "lock" image). Maybe the iPod browser is different (my Android doesn't play the animation either) but I'd be surprised if the animation worked on an iPhone but not on an iPod...
Re: iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
#9I'm not sure if I should be impressed by this. From a technical standpoint, it seems quite clever and unique, but it also seems like a lot of work just to avoid using a tag.
As noted in the post, iOS devices will only do video tags fullscreen.
that is only true for iPhone and iPod touch, you can have inline video on the iPad.
Re: iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
As noted in the post, iOS devices will only do video tags fullscreen.
I just tried on my friend's iPod and the animation doesn't play there anyway (it just stays on the "lock" image). Maybe the iPod browser is different (my Android doesn't play the animation either) but I'd be surprised if the animation worked on an iPhone but not on an iPod...
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