In April Steve Jobs famously replied to the rumors and critics regarding the iPhone and iPod’s refusal to include Flash Plugins to it’s browsers on the mobile devices, explaining the reasoning behind it.

Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others

Previously we’ve written on how to use HTML5 to make your video’s on your sites iPhone and iPad ready and it looks like Apple is slowly gaining ground.

Steve Jobs is one-quarter of the way to victory in his increasingly heated take-no-prisoners assault on Adobe Flash.

>According to a survey conducted by video aggregator MeFeedia, 26 per cent of all web video is now available for playback withthe HTML5 tag and the H.264 codec. That means that 26 per cent of web video is now viewable on the iPhone/Pod/Pad. And, of course, Steve Jobs asserts that it’s the most important 26 per cent.

MeFeedia’s CEO Frank Sinton tells The Reg that the survey’s was a large one: content from over 30,000 sources. Sites in the MeFeedia Video Index include Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion, plus music videos from Vevo and MTV, and news from AP, ABC, CBS, and CNN.

ESPN

ESPN uses HTML5 to play audio and video for fans browsing ESPN.com on iPad. Site navigation and live scoring have also been optimized for the iPad Multi-Touch display.

Apple has listed a growing list of high profile sites that have already converted over or provide the HTML5 code to directly play video on Mobile devices with ease.

 

In April Steve Jobs famously replied to the rumors and critics regarding the iPhone and iPod’s refusal to include Flash Plugins to it’s browsers on the mobile devices, explaining the reasoning behind it.

Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others

Previously we’ve written on how to use HTML5 to make your video’s on your sites iPhone and iPad ready and it looks like Apple is slowly gaining ground.

Steve Jobs is one-quarter of the way to victory in his increasingly heated take-no-prisoners assault on Adobe Flash.

>According to a survey conducted by video aggregator MeFeedia, 26 per cent of all web video is now available for playback withthe HTML5 tag and the H.264 codec. That means that 26 per cent of web video is now viewable on the iPhone/Pod/Pad. And, of course, Steve Jobs asserts that it’s the most important 26 per cent.

MeFeedia’s CEO Frank Sinton tells The Reg that the survey’s was a large one: content from over 30,000 sources. Sites in the MeFeedia Video Index include Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion, plus music videos from Vevo and MTV, and news from AP, ABC, CBS, and CNN.

ESPN

ESPN uses HTML5 to play audio and video for fans browsing ESPN.com on iPad. Site navigation and live scoring have also been optimized for the iPad Multi-Touch display.

Apple has listed a growing list of high profile sites that have already converted over or provide the HTML5 code to directly play video on Mobile devices with ease.