 Permalink for comment 408098 RE[3]: Video for everybody by Kroc
on Sat 6th Feb 2010 11:43 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Video for
everybody" Member since:  VfE is just a simple template (an
obvious one at that)--it's free for anybody to modify. I won't
put Silverlight into it (as before, the plan is to remove
things, not add them), but anybody could quite easily add
Silverlight to it, I won't stop them.  But a WinMo device should
play the MP4 file download anyway, if it supports it. HTML5
video is just literally handing a video file to a browser and
saying 'here, play this'. Why anybody would want to then wrap
that simple process in a plugin architecture, and framework
system, I don't know--especially on a mobile device of all
places. Simplicity and the fewest number of levels between the
video and the hardware the better. That is why MS don't get the
web. HTML5 Video is the solution to video on mobile devices,
period. If MS write Silverlight into WinMo, but not HTML5 video
they are truly shooting themselves in th