Tag: Chromium

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Blink and Servo

It is a back to back news on web browsers.

First, Mozilla and Samsung are working together on new Servo web browser engine for Android and ARM. Servo itself is written in Rust, a programming language developed by Mozilla.

Should Samsung ever want to fork Android, they would have their own web browser.

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Second, Google announces Blink, a new open source rendering engine based on WebKit.

In a sense that Google is in a disagreement on what direction Webkit should go.

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Bring on all the different web browsers, as long as they adhere to one HTML standard.

 

 

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Google to remove h.264 support from Chrome.

According to The Chromium Blog:

…we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project. Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for other high-quality open codecs in the future. Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies.

So will Chrome still support Flash Player? Flash Player is the container for many video formats including h.264.

Does this mean Google would not support non-open/proprietary codec like h.264 but support a non-open/proprietary container like Flash?