Mashable: Steve Jobs Is Not Happy With Google, Adobe.
Of course he’s not. Ah, Mashable’s wised up. This Apple/Adobe hoo-hah is about the fight over mobile and internet-only OS’s. Chrome OS is what Mr Jobs is really worried about, and my guess is he simply doesn’t want to give Adobe a carte blanche to be able to deliver RIA’s across all mobile networks (Chrome OS, Android *and* iPhone) without some sort of compensation framework. Most likely Apple simply wants a cut from Adobe to give them access. Just a WAG, Wild Ass Guess.
And for the record, Mr Jobs, my Mac crashes most often because of third party ‘menu extras.’ HTML5, for all your rhetoric, will not see wide acceptance for a while - it’s not robust enough. Particularly for video. For instance, try to find ‘cue points’ in the HTML5 video spec. Deal-breaker, for most commercial uses - those who want to sync closed-captioning and advertisements outside of re-encoding video or supplying multiple video encodes ($$).
If you have a real dog in this Adobe/Apple race, and don’t need complex video features, try this technique for embedding of simple videos, allowing graceful degradation from HTML5 to Quicktime to Flash to a placeholder image. I haven’t tried it out yet, but I think it’ll be great if you have ‘politically sensitive’ readers.
Later: Should you go busting your hump over HTML 5’s video tag? Read this first.
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