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On 29 April 2010, Steve Jobs published "Thoughts on Flash", an open letter giving six reasons iPhones and iPads would not run Adobe's plugin. It changed how the web plays video.

Jobs argued that flash was proprietary, crashed Macs, had a poor security record, drained batteries, relied on mouse hovers touchscreens lack, and put a third-party layer between Apple and its developers.

Apple backed open web standards instead (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) and H.264 video. Critics noted H.264 was patented too. It didn't matter. Adobe dropped mobile Flash in 2011, YouTube made HTML5 its default in 2015, and Adobe ended Flash support on 31 December 2020.

That left every site that wanted video on iPhones and iPads with a problem: play without a plugin, on an HTML5 video element that was new and inconsistent.

Video.js, a weekend experiment by Steve Heffernan at Zencoder, was one of the first soltuions.

Our upcoming film tells that story, and what happened in 2025, when Steve came back and Video.js started over.

Video.js: The Documentary is coming...

Trailer: Thursday 29 October at 11:30am PDT

Premieres Live on 5 November on CultRepo YT at 10:30am PST

@MuxHQ @videojs @heff @jondahl @mihar_22 @luwes @sam_potts

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@tannerlinsley @tan_stack We are ready 🍿

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@der_abro No late enough 🫣

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We just dropped a little teaser for an upcoming film...

The film tells the story of PHP, a language that was never meant to become what it is today, told by the people who shaped it.

Expect the full film later this year.

https://t.co/7hzt744l8l

Featuring:
Nils Adermann (Composer) @naderman
Taylor Otwell (Laravel) @taylorotwell @laravelphp
Nikita Popov (PHP Core) @nikita_ppv
Fabien Potencier (Symfony) @fabpot @symfony
Roman Pronskiy (The PHP Foundation) @pronskiy @ThePHPF
Brent Roose (JetBrains) @brendt_gd @phpstorm @jetbrains
....and more....

@jetbrains is supporting us to make this film. Thanks to the team there!

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What do frogs and proprietary software have to do with each other?

Catch the full KDE documentary now: https://t.co/snd8Xlizlj

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KDE has gotten more views in the first 48hrs than any other documentary we made, including React, Python, C++, etc. Check it out here: https://t.co/snd8Xli1vL

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@cra @cschum Thanks for sharing Chris!

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Long Live FOSS!

The KDE documentary is now live ... https://t.co/snd8Xli1vL

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25 minutes until we kick-off with the live premier of KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs. Join us!

https://t.co/snd8Xli1vL

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Join us tomorrow, October 14th, at 7:30pm CEST for the live premiere of The KDE Documentary. Link here --

https://t.co/snd8Xlizlj

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Aaron Siego led KDE Plasma and served as President of KDE e.V. Here he talks about why KDE, and free software more broadly, still matters.

Full documentary premieres October 14.

https://t.co/Mi70Mesme7

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So....we have a new website:

https://t.co/gAyD14Tnqh

👏

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@mat4m0 @_pi0_ 👀

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Where does the 'K' in KDE come from!?

https://t.co/474uCzJely

The KDE documentary is out on CultRepo on October 14th.

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@vi_c0de 😍

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@cra Thanks for sharing @cra !

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Interesting thread from Armin, who was featured in our Python documentary and our Pi and Flask mini-docs! https://t.co/wFNhppJoxn

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What when it comes to AI in software engineering are you struggling with the most?

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@pidotdev @mitsuhiko 👏

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The KDE Documentary trailer is out! The Full documentary drops on October 14th, exactly 30 years since Matthias Ettrich's Usenet post which launched the community.

Subscribe to CultRepo to be notified for the full release: https://t.co/IHvsRVNrav

@kdecommunity

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@SyntaxError2505 @RLeRoux64 You are right, we should have said 'Language and Framework Designers' - our bad! We would never disrespect Matz!

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@cyrus_msk @karpathy @karpathy take this as your official invite :)