On: WWDC 2013 Keynote

[diroussel]

If you are interested in this event running Safari is no great hardship.

[untog → diroussel]

Somehow I doubt HN would have the same reaction if MS forced people to use Internet Explorer to watch a video.

[philfreo → diroussel]

Hardship? Of course not - it's right there in my dock. My point is more about open web standards and Apple not caring about them here.

[diroussel → philfreo]

Definition:

> "An open standard [1] is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it,"

Published standard: HTTP Live Streaming at IETF [2]

See also: HTTP Live Streaming at apple.com [3]

The real question is why have none of the other browsers gone on to implement what is a very efficient streaming technology. And HTTP live streaming is very web-like, there's not really any new technology there. Instead Firefox and Chrome put effort into WebRTC, which seems like a lot more work. Although I do accept that WebRTC is orthogonal to HTTP Live streaming.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming...

[3] https://developer.apple.com/streaming/

[philfreo → diroussel]

Didn't realize there was an actual standard being used here that simply wasn't supported by the other browsers.

[diroussel → philfreo]

Oh and what standard live streaming should they have used?