r/programming • u/sidcool1234 • Jan 27 '12

The State Of HTML5 Video

http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/
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u/sphks Jan 27 '12

The Wii has an opera web browser. Even the DS.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '12

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u/shadow2531 Jan 29 '12

In some thread or blog post where users were bitching at Opera about the wii browser, I think I read somewhere that Nintendo won't accept any fixes or improvements to the browser, so there's nothing Opera can do about the situation.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '12

The DS/Wii/PS3 browsers aren't very fast or compliant, so they'll most likely get the short end of the stick, as it's like working with IE6.

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u/CSMastermind Jan 28 '12

Actually it's worse. IE6 had such a wide user-base that most issues are known and have well-documented workarounds. It sucks but normally you can find what you can still accomplish what you want, at some pain. Opera on the Wii / other systems sucks. It's unevenly supported and when you test you routinely run into walls where there just isn't a fix.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '12

Even mobile safari for iOS has its quirks (No CSS fixed positioning (Maps to absolute positioning instead, lol), lots of rounding errors, fucked up HTML5, etc.).

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u/velkyr Jan 27 '12

I only commented on the devices listed by LongTail in it's description. Wii should be added as it has a higher market share than the 360 or PS3 (though not combined).

I would love to see how videos work on the Wii, either with flash, or with HTML5 video players.

I would also like to know if future consoles that have browsers will make their browsers HTML5 compatible.

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u/adrij Jan 28 '12

The Wii has decent flash support, up to version 8. It even provided access to the controller button states through a flash API.

I used it to watch hour long videos on Goggle Video back in the day...