http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2009/10/25/whitehouse-gov-goes-open-source/ Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2009/10/25/whitehouse-gov-goes-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-813505 Simon Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:02:15 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/?p=3015#comment-813505 Re. HTML5 video, that would be nice to see, but Flash remains a lot easier to deal with, in that it works *everywhere*. HTML5 may work on FF, Safari, and Chrome, but it doesn't work at all on IE, and doesn't support the same formats on all browsers. So to suit everyone, you need Flash anyway, and you need at least two variants of HTML5 to work on both FF and Safari. Little wonder they've taken the easy option... Re. HTML5 video, that would be nice to see, but Flash remains a lot easier to deal with, in that it works *everywhere*. HTML5 may work on FF, Safari, and Chrome, but it doesn’t work at all on IE, and doesn’t support the same formats on all browsers. So to suit everyone, you need Flash anyway, and you need at least two variants of HTML5 to work on both FF and Safari. Little wonder they’ve taken the easy option…

]]> http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2009/10/25/whitehouse-gov-goes-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-813217 Toni Hermoso Pulido (toniher) 's status on Monday, 26-Oct-09 00:09:54 UTC - Identi.ca Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:10:03 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/?p=3015#comment-813217 [...] goes Open Source: http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2009/10/25/whitehouse-gov-goes-open-source/ [...] [...] goes Open Source: http://robert.accettura.com/bl.....en-source/ [...]

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