Update: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and HTML5
Post categories: open standards,Μύopen standards
| 15:20 UK time, Thursday, 26 August 2010
[Ed's Update, 31/08/10: The role of that George mentions below is now on the .]
Erik is away on holiday but he's asked me to update you on what else the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is doing to further support the development of HTML. (Ed's note: Read Erik Huggers' earlier post HTML5, open standards, and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ)
This is a research area that my section, R&D, has been , and we really want to embrace and support HTML5. Erik is so serious about the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ supporting this project that he's already putting extra resources behind it and we are bringing on board a Senior Technologist for Internet Standards, to support increased involvement on the W3C and other standards bodies as needed. This person will work within Future Media & Technology's R&D team, where there is a history of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ making significant contributions to standards initiatives.
We hope the person can draw on their existing experience and knowledge of the cutting edge of Web technologies and Internet services, while working closely with colleagues inside and outside the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ to feed through production area's perspectives. They'll represent the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ on various standards bodies as well as create experimental interfaces which address some of the issues Erik mentioned with current standards and guidelines.
This role will be advertised on the soon and we look forward to many interesting applications. I'll follow up with a link to this job when it's live (in the next couple of weeks).
George Wright is Head of Prototyping, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Research and Development.
Comment number 1.
At 1st Sep 2010, sa wrote:Will the HTML5 video tag with h264 or WebM be added for iPlayer as Flash uses way too much cpu and is jerky, even on 2ghz core2 cpu's. Or will you even use silverlight 4?
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Comment number 2.
At 10th Jan 2011, maxterdfling wrote:HTML5 is the future... Youtube is already supporting it and it will beat flash in many ways.
I wonder how it will work with since they almost all work with flash.. Time will tell. Thanks for the great post!
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