SVG Video Demo

Using the HTML Video tag in SVG to implement a Silverlight style demo in Firefox.

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• svg
• silverlight
• ogg
• firefox

[doublecnz]

It looks slow because of the frame rate capture of the screencasting software. It works fine on my hardware.

Technically it is working on the desktop. It's running client side on the browser. The videos can be hosted locally or streamed.

[infinitelink]

To the guys who aren't getting the point of this (those saying OSS is communism, and that Flash for linux is awful, and etc.), this isn't about Flash or communism, nor are you getting the point of this demonstration: the thing being demonstrated in this video is the use of pure standards from the World Wide Web Consortium (the body charged with making the HTML standards that your browser is supposed to follow); with HTML5 and SVG, it eliminates the need for propriety stuff from MS and adobe.

[Edward109]

I hope this will replace flash. On a Mac, flash is nothing but a resource hog.

[Kelarre653]

That's impressive!

[arkniiz]

ah....

[hjones1]

Communism?? What's Obama got to do with this?

[Edel99]

Flash will eventually die; that much is clear. The only use for Flash I see will be for making animated penis jokes on 'newgrounds'...lol

Now that MS is embracing web standards they will simply make better tools with those standards in mind! And Adobe will be back in the 'designer spectrum'!

[GoldRainGirl]

I saw the future, silverlight was a joke and flash was remembered as a dead protection racketeer whose entire thing crumbled with his death...

^^

[nantocsem]

I hope svg will kill the whole Silverlight project. Flash is a thing I can live with on linux, but sad to see sites choosing silverlight 3, which I can't even play with moonlight plugin :(

[monstercameron]

sick

[mayo705]

I would rather see also HTML 5 & SVG fully widespread but for that it will take years. Flash 9.4 is alreeady working on ARM processors but not with GPU acceleration (coming in 10.1 version next year). I don't know about 64bit version for Windows but there is already 64 bit port for Linux. But to be honest i don't want either Adobe Flash or Microsoft oligopolies on my PC, netbook or smartbook to be present as main alternative in five years time.

[imroy264]

Flash is not available on "any" platform. I think it's just Windows, Mac, and Linux on x86. Mac on PPC is probably supported too, but that is sure to end soon if hasn't already.

Adobe is clearly having trouble porting Flash to other platforms. They don't even have an x86-64 version yet, and all the netbook makers are on their backs about an ARM port. In the mean time, I see Iceweasel on Debian (a.k.a Firefox) is available for a dozen archs. I'd rather code to HTML5/SVG than proprietary crap.

[mayo705]

Flash is currently "standard", you got it working on any platform. SVG is the future, hopefully in couple of years it will be starting to become mainstream vector format.