{"id":16311,"date":"2010-04-07T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/04\/flash-video-daring-fireball-engadget.html"},"modified":"2010-04-07T15:25:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:25:13","slug":"flash_video_daring_fireball_engadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/flash_video_daring_fireball_engadget\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash video, Daring Fireball, &amp; Engadget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite possibly my own personal, irrelevant hangup, but I keep getting annoyed by the lack of precision in how people talk about online video.<\/p>\n<p>On Daring Fireball today, John Gruber <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2010\/04\/07\/joojoo\">writes<\/a>, &#8220;Ironically, Engadget&#8217;s video demos are only available in Flash. Why would a website devoted to leading-edge gadgetry continue to embed video in a format that can&#8217;t be played on the best web-reading gadget?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;ve chosen a <strong>format<\/strong> that won&#8217;t play on the iPad; it&#8217;s that they haven&#8217;t yet done the additional work (necessitated by Apple not allowing Flash on the iPad) to target a different <strong>player<\/strong>.  That is, they need to set up a switch that&#8217;ll let them target Flash Player in Mac\/Windows Web browsers (giving them 98% desktop viewership) and target the Video tag in Mobile Safari.  They can use the same format (H.264) in both cases.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d fully expect them to do so: as I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/03\/h264_isnt_an_alternative_to_flash.html\">written previously<\/a>, content creators &amp; publishers will use whatever combination of technologies let them reach customers most effectively.  On the desktop that means Flash Player; on iPad\/iPhone, it has to mean something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite possibly my own personal, irrelevant hangup, but I keep getting annoyed by the lack of precision in how people talk about online video. On Daring Fireball today, John Gruber writes, &#8220;Ironically, Engadget&#8217;s video demos are only available in Flash. Why would a website devoted to leading-edge gadgetry continue to embed video in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}