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Govt backs Canvas as others complain

“I’m basically very positive about Canvas,” Jeremy Hunt, the culture, media and sport secretary, told the  The Media Festival Arts. “In terms of what I understand, I think it’s incredibly exciting. It will finally – for many, many people – remove the barriers between lean-forward and lean-back technology. The chaos of the internet – for […]

September 9, 2010

BBC: more hypertext and more money

The BBC is to invest more in R&D for online TV and is appointing specialist in Internet standards to work with Future Media & Technology. The BBC says the move demonstrates its commitment to HTML 5 use in video – it has received criticism that the use of Flash in the iPlayer shows a lack […]

August 27, 2010