HTML5 lets you do video and interactive video without a plugin. It makes Flash, Silverlight, and Gears somewhat obsolete. (Which is why Google shut down gears). I really hope the answer is A. FYI Youtube is already running HTML5 in beta. For all you webgeeks, check it out. IMO HTML5 is the greatest innovation since RoR.
"Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, expects the specification to reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during 2012, and W3C Recommendation in the year 2022 or later. However, many parts of the specification are stable and may be implemented in products:
Some sections are already relatively stable and there are implementations that are already quite close to completion, and those features can be used today (e.g. <canvas>).
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So don't expect any real work on it any time soon.
They will probably work on it when it is stable. Because earlier, is asking for trouble.
This is really a ridiculous and kind of pointless question and you don't "switch to HTML 5", though you may use certain functionality introduced in it. As you're presenting the question, you'd think it's like "when are you going to update your PS3 firmware". And what do you mean "when IE has it". You don't "have it". You either support it or you don't. And knowing MSIE's record, the answer to that is probably "never, they'll continue to push stupid proprietary bullshit and completely break the web".
It sounds to be like the original poster read a blurb somewhere about "HTML 5" and doesn't really have a clue WTF is going on.
" This is really a ridiculous and kind of pointless question and you don't "switch to HTML 5", though you may use certain functionality introduced in it. As you're presenting the question, you'd think it's like "when are you going to update your PS3 firmware". And what do you mean "when IE has it". You don't "have it". You either support it or you don't. And knowing MSIE's record, the answer to that is probably "never, they'll continue to push stupid proprietary bullshit and completely break the web". It sounds to be like the original poster read a blurb somewhere about "HTML 5" and doesn't really have a clue WTF is going on. "
HUH?
Each revision of HTML has waypoints as version numbers to define that various tags, rules and techniques of application both server and client side have been ratified into a cohesive whole.
I know what the fuck HTML 5 is. I was, afterall, an engineer for a little company known as Netscape. But asking (especially prior to full standardization) "when is this site going to switch to HTML 5" is kind of meaningless. Some things are obsoleted and others are introduced. You may use some of those new elements as support for them client and server side appears, but asking "when are you going to switch to HTML 5?" is a really vague and almost empty question. I'm an engineer; not a web designer, but I highly suspect that with little or no changes to the site (and without utilizing anything new that is introduced in HTML 5), the site could still entirely meet the requirements of HTML 5 validation whenever it's finalized.
So again, saying "when is it going to switch to HTML 5?" pretty much doesn't mean anything.
Now, if the guy had said something like "are there any plans for Giantbomb to utilize some of the HTML 5 video playing capabilities instead of or in addition to the flash interface in the near future?" - that would actually mean something.
Edit: Throwing fuck into the first sentence probably made that seem way more hostile than I meant it to. Sorry. :)
" I would love a Flash-less OGG-based video set up on GiantBomb. "
Agreed, but I don't really know what the internal drive or affinity for OSS is at Giant Bomb / Whiskey. I'd like to be wrong, but I doubt they have an interest in the extra work to develop and maintain a separate interface for a pending standard that is a long way from having robust support in primary browser clients and even farther away from seeing widespread adoption by the userbase who tends to upgrade once every decade.
Personally, however, it can't happen soon enough and I'd love to see all the major sites make the switch.
I think Giant Bomb are very far from a time where people will be coming to the site and raging over the fact that you actually have to have flash to watch videos.
" @Branthog: thanks for making this ridiculous thread somewhat enjoyable. Most of the times I successfully avoid doing the lecturing myself. I never know if I have to start with: "A long time ago ..." From outside - as a simple user, I see two things: understaffed and covered with too much work = Giantbomb. What I personally would really love to see is a better comment system. Usually the "bury the comments"-Gamespot approach they keep is ok ("Let the Duders bitch and forget about it"). But I often see interesting comments and sometimes even discussions I would like to follow, without having to search for it, making 1982 telnet BBS a superior system? This would be another thread. "
I'd really like to see the comment/forum system improved, too. The common "use search before posting something!" whine is less applicable here, because the search functionality and the way all the forums are arraanged makes things so incredibly difficult. I'm also not a big fan of the quote system (I'm more a fan of nested threads, though I can see the aesthetic reason why they'd choose the current layout). More than anything, I hate how hard it is to find someone's comment in a thread. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. "So and so replied to your post in the blah blah thread" and it just takes you back to a random point in the thread and you have to sort through page after page after page looking for the comment that was in reply to yours.
I think a lot of these things will slowly be improved over time -- but with limited staff and (probably) limited revenue, they have to focus their resources on elements that are likely to draw the greatest return on the investment. The video system (though using flash - ugh) works. So that seems like something on the bottom of their list right now. However, if they ever read this, I would LOVE to be able to pause videos by pressing the space bar, instead of having to fumble for the mouse and press the little pause button. :P
" @Branthog: thanks for making this ridiculous thread somewhat enjoyable. Most of the times I successfully avoid doing the lecturing myself. I never know if I have to start with: "A long time ago ..." From outside - as a simple user, I see two things: understaffed and covered with too much work = Giantbomb. What I personally would really love to see is a better comment system. Usually the "bury the comments"-Gamespot approach they keep is ok ("Let the Duders bitch and forget about it"). But I often see interesting comments and sometimes even discussions I would like to follow, without having to search for it, making 1982 telnet BBS a superior system? This would be another thread. "
Definitely, but I think Giant Bomb and Whiskey Media are aware of that problem so that's one reason why Giant Bomb doesn't review every single game that's come out nor do they even have daily content.
But the commenting system? GiantBomb doesn't have that +/- system?
@Branthog said:
" @Zero_ said:
" I would love a Flash-less OGG-based video set up on GiantBomb. "
Agreed, but I don't really know what the internal drive or affinity for OSS is at Giant Bomb / Whiskey. I'd like to be wrong, but I doubt they have an interest in the extra work to develop and maintain a separate interface for a pending standard that is a long way from having robust support in primary browser clients and even farther away from seeing widespread adoption by the userbase who tends to upgrade once every decade. Personally, however, it can't happen soon enough and I'd love to see all the major sites make the switch. "
That's true. It's just another one of those nice things to have. Even if they did implement it, more than half the user base wouldn't notice anything different anyway.
@dcpc10:Ok, but it still annoys me that I go to PlayStation.com and see all these cool signatures on the forums and I can't put any on my favorite gaming site. ;(
^ This, if it happens. Why make things more complicated beforehand? Though I can think of some super funky front page customization options if Whiskey Media ever does decide to go that route, so I'm definitely in favor of it.
seriously, I don't think that's important at all...
So yeah, running videos without plugins, so what? what's the benefit? there will still be thousands of ads and games in flash for people to experience, so they will still have the plug-ins installed anyway, so why change now?
The effort they would have to invest in the technology migration would in no way be justified by the ability to run videos without the need of a plug-in that will be there anyway for at least 90% of the users...
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