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RE[3]: Video for everybody
by Kroc on Sat 6th Feb 2010 11:43 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Video for everybody"
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VfE is just a simple template (an obvious one at that)--it's free for anybody to modify. I won't put Silverlight into it (as before, the plan is to remove things, not add them), but anybody could quite easily add Silverlight to it, I won't stop them.

But a WinMo device should play the MP4 file download anyway, if it supports it. HTML5 video is just literally handing a video file to a browser and saying 'here, play this'. Why anybody would want to then wrap that simple process in a plugin architecture, and framework system, I don't know--especially on a mobile device of all places. Simplicity and the fewest number of levels between the video and the hardware the better. That is why MS don't get the web. HTML5 Video is the solution to video on mobile devices, period. If MS write Silverlight into WinMo, but not HTML5 video they are truly shooting themselves in the foot, and as said before, yet more proof positive that Microsoft are against an open web.

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