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H.264 Is Now Free, Sort Of

By Vygantas | August 27, 2010 | 6 Comments

H.264 Is Now Free, Sort Of MPEG-LA, the group behind H.264 codec licensing declared Internet Broadcast AVC free from royalties; as long as web site that provides video streaming service is free as well. Or put in other words: YouTube won’t have to pay for it

Originally, LLC was planning to charge companies that rely on H.264, starting from 2016.

Thanks to competition, such as: Google’s WebM video format, this is no longer the case, as long as end users are not paying for service.

Thanks to webtax for the news tip.
Source: Electronista

Weekly Browsers Recap, August 23rd

By Vygantas | August 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

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• The History of Internet Explorer
As Microsoft celebrates the 15th birthday of Internet Explorer, lets dive into the past and see how it all started…

• Is Internet Explorer the Modern Times Jesus?
Before we begin… If you are easily offended Christian, just skip this post.
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Internet Explorer 9 vs. Google Chrome 6 (HTML5 Performance)

By Vygantas | June 24, 2010 | 25 Comments

In rather pointless benchmark, DownloadSquad has tested latest Internet Explorer 9 build against Google Chrome 6 dev.

What are the results?
As seen in video above, IE9 annihilated Chrome. However, while it does sound great, author failed to mention that Google Chrome 6 does not really support hardware acceleration (still in early development stage). Therefore, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise.
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Google Launches HTML5 Rocks Web Site

By Vygantas | June 24, 2010 | 4 Comments

Google Launches HTML5 Rocks Web Site

In response to Apple’s HTML5 demos, Google has launched a website of its own that is far more useful.

Yes, it does include various presentations that were originally designed to run on Google Chrome. However, HTML5 Rocks also provide you with a tools and tutorials to code something for yourself.

So, who’s next? Mozilla, Opera or Microsoft?

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Opera 10.60 Beta Hits the Streets

By Vygantas | June 16, 2010 | 16 Comments

Just few days after the recent Opera build, with improved HTML5 features support, Opera Software has released the very first beta of Opera 10.60 web browser.

Version 10.60 introduces speed improvements and few new features, such as:

Smarter Searching
More efficient search with new search suggestions feature (did not work).

HTML5 Features Support
Opera now supports WebM in HTML5 video: a high quality, free and open video format.
You can add location awareness to your web applications to expand the possibilities of what you can offer.
… and more

Download Opera 10.60 Beta.

Thanks to Ichann for the news tip.

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Latest Opera Snapshot Receives More HTML5 Features Support

By Vygantas | June 14, 2010 | 11 Comments

Latest Opera Snapshot Receives More HTML5 Features Support Today’s Opera browser snapshot (non-stable) has introduced a support of four HTML5 related features, as well as Cross-Document Messaging update.

Those features are:
WebM support for HTML5 video (demo)
HTML5 Offline Web Applications (demo)
Geolocation (not fully implemented in FreeBSD/Linux builds yet) (demo)
Web Workers (demo)

On a side note, Bing is now set as a default Speed Dial search engine. For a complete list of changes, visit the following post.

Download: (use it on your own risk)

Thanks to “narzędzia pneumatyczne” for the news tip.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, June 7th

By Vygantas | June 7, 2010 | 2 Comments

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• Microsoft Pushes Hard with Internet Explorer 9
It looks like Microsoft IE team tries to do its best to make you forget about Internet Explorer 6/7 mess.

• Internet Explorer 6 Market Share to Reach 10% in 2010
If we analyze Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 market share trend, the following conclusion can be made.

• Mozilla to Add Weave Sync for the Next Firefox Release
It appears that Mozilla has decided to integrate data synch feature into the upcoming major Firefox release.
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Apple HTML5 Demos

By Vygantas | June 4, 2010 | 21 Comments

Today Apple has launched a web site to demonstrate HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript capabilities.

In case you don’t feel like downloading Safari web browser + QuickTime, here are all the demos.

Video Effects
Control media playback and apply a variety of CSS effects to video delivered with HTML5.
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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) GPU Powered Samples Demo

By Vygantas | May 6, 2010 | 14 Comments

An interesting video, in which Microsoft employee demonstrates the difference between GPU (Internet Explorer 9) and non-GPU (Firefox, Chrome) powered web browsers.