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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Non HTML5 browsers will be like IE6 in a few years -- so who really gives a fuck? People with money to spend don't use obsolete software. The fall-back is HLS anyway and those streams are relatively secure. There is a lot more to win here than what there is to lose -- who says you HAVE to? Look at the browsers of your members -- the people who buy. A posteriori knowledge gained by my empirical experience of our customers says IE is the only problem so how long will the Microsoft laggerts have a substantial footprint if they continue in their obstinacy?
We are only investing our development budget in the new HTML5 technologies and in the process of updating relevant related software. Strictly maintenance of the legacy software.
Time waits for no man ...
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You are right, it's always worth investing towards new technologies and implementing it as soon as possible
my point about the fallback was that you may have to fallback to normal html5 as Encrypted Media Extensions is quite new and wasn't there when html5 video came out, so only latest versions of browsers support it, granted most surfers that don't use IE are up to date but you still have people with older versions and mobile devices that support html5 but not EME
It's a good step forward but it will take some time
anyway there are things one can do to protect html5, new ideas and technologies come up all the time, most people that say you can't do anything about html5 are looking at old news