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HTML5: Where the core web technology is headed now

August 31, 2017

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HTML5 began making waves in software development many years before its official adoption in October 2014, reducing reliance on proprietary rich internet technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. The HTML5 video element, for embedding video in a document, was a big change to support the rich internet. HTML5 also was designed to the support the change of the web from a place to browse documents to a place to build distributed applications.

Still dogging HTML5, though, is the search for a common, royalty-free video codec for the web. There has been some progress, but no resolution. H.265 is still encumbered with patents

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