Assorted inanity.

 

Has anyone written an all HTML5/non-Flash Tumblr theme?

One that plays all media —- audio, photos, and video —- via HTML5 tags instead of through Flash wrappers?

Audio/MP3 posts, for example, are simply embedded in Flash wrappers/players that could just as well be played via QuickTime/HTML5 using native controls.

Audio posts play fine on the iPhone using QuickTime, so they’re obviously playable without Flash.

Multiple-photo posts are displayed within a slideshow wrapper on the desktop, but are just displayed natively as a list of photos on the iPhone.

And can’t a theme be written to show an h.264/MP4 embedded video when available instead of a Flash version?

Of course, the theme can fall back to Flash players/wrappers if native versions of content are not available/parseable, i.e. a Flash-only embedded video or audio stream.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

MPEG LA: H.264 codec license is free forever

MacDailyNews:

MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as “Internet Broadcast AVC Video”) during the entire life of this License.

Read the entire release here.