Vimeo, Yahoo! Mail get cozy with HTML5

By on Aug 18, 2010 at 7:58 AM
General August 18, 2010

It looks like both Vimeo and Yahoo! have jumped on the HTML5 bandwagon. Yesterday, the USA Today reported that internet streaming-video service Vimeo added HTML5 support for embedded video in order to be more compliant with the iPhone and iPad. Until now, the site had displayed embedded video using Adobe’s Flash technology.

Yahoo! Mail announced that it has released an HTML5 mobile webmail client specifically designed for the iPad. The company boasts that the new app is “optimized for the gorgeous large screen of the iPad.” The new Yahoo! Mail HTML5 interface is available now (mail.yahoo.com), and the company closes with, “this is just the first version, and we’ll be constantly iterating to add new features, improve performance, and make Yahoo! Mail for iPad the best it can possibly be.”

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  • wanderer

    First? Haters won’t like this news. waitng for the hating to begin in 3…2…1.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

    • Ernie

      If you taunt them, these kids that wonder around here, then they will spill their vile here. This is good for everyone, HTML 5. I’ve always had issues with flash and a lot of people hated it and bad mouthed it but because of their hatred for apple, unfounded in my opinion, now all of the sudden they claim that flash is perhaps the best thing ever invented and that apple is trying to stifle it because they are evil. The time for flash has come and gone, unless someone can justify going back to floppies and I remember nashua and the disk manufacturers battling to save the floppy like their lives depended on it and it did.

  • Kent

    Vimeo encoded their videos in HTML 5 months ago. What is new is that they now can recognize html 5 in embedded videos. iPad users could watch Vimeo videos on Vimeo’s website, but now they can view them when they are embedded in other websites.

  • Chica

    Um….Yahoo…can you please add imap idle push please!!!!!!!!

  • wanderer

    @Kent, nice one. Just went on the yahoo mail with my ipad and loved the new html5 interface. Best solution to this is to have Flash and html on all platforms as much as possible.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • me

    this new HTML5 doesn’t work with Androids native browser though! That’s no fun

    • http://emuneee.com Evan

      I got it working fine on my Samsung Captivate (Vimeo that is). It’s about time for Vimeo to support some type of mobile access :)

    • me

      Yahoo! Mail’s HTML5, sorry

  • Mohammad

    Who cares about Android?

    • Ernie

      I care! And a lot of other people do. And any smart person should. I’m an apple fanboy but also a goofan. The fact that you’re not caring could, sadly, be an indication of your poor intellect or perhaps you’re a kid with low maturity levels.

    • Rex Ryan’s fat head

      In short, no one, but some rabid fan girls

      • Ernie

        Bullshit! Millions of people care. Again, someone lacking the intellect or maturity won’t.

  • Rob

    HTML 5 is good news for any platform, android, ios, whatever. Down with the data hog flash.

    • MadSkillz

      Exactly. HTML 5 is meant to be universal. Its good for all.

  • Dara

    This is good news, I was checking my Yahoo email from my home PC the other day and the with all the Flash ads, bad design, etc, it took far too long to get to my Inbox.

    Half of the time that I spent resetting my Skype password was waiting on some yahoo’s idea of the perfect web portal.

    Hopefully, this will speed things up for the rare occasion when I can’t just use my phone, or FlashBlock.

  • namelesstwo

    HTML5 is good business, and Yahoo! see it as a crack to get its foot in Apple’s door, now that Google is a direct competitor with Apple.

    They are trying to honeypot Apple, first with the iPad and next with the iPhone and iTouch, so they can use their search engines and maps more than Google’s, and get a larger slice on the ad revenue pie.

    • Ernie

      Interesting. I hadn’t thought about that. Pretty cool.

      • Ernie

        Just throwing it out there. But couldn’t apple buy yahoo? Their history is one of small buys, components if you will, so a purchase of this magnitude is out of character. But again, just saying. :-)

  • Frank

    Perfect timing….all this nonsense about Apple being closed when it’s Flash that’s closed. HTML5 is the open format.

    Will Froyo work with HTML5?

  • Elektra

    Like Apple said (and I agreed with them), it’s only a matter of time when major websites will adopt HTML5, the REAL open/standard format. Apple haters are not realizing it now due to their hate for Apple overpowering their logic, but when more websites adopt HTML5 and makes devices run videos and apps much smoother and less power hungry, and more stable (unlike flash), everyone will remember Apple’s stand on this, and everyone will remember Apple to be the one who pushed HTML5. But of course haters would always find some dumb excuse that it was Nokia or Google who pushed for it, not Apple :-)

  • John

    I’m ecstatic that sites are moving to standards compliant design for their websites.

    I’m pissed that they’re doing it to comply with Apple and not said standards.

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