Talk on HTML5

As we all know, the battle between Flash and HTML5 for the future of online video is raging. But what about that other plugin some sites use for video? You know, the one made by Microsoft — Silverlight? A new posting tonight may call that platform’s future in video into question as well. Because arguably their most important client is looking to jump on the HTML5 video bandwagon: Netflix.

Netflix’s Director of Web Engineering, Adrian Cockcroft, indicates the company’s intention to embrace HTML5 going forward. The move is apparently spurred on by Netflix’s move to Amazon’s cloud, which will require a re-architecting of the codebase, Cockcroft notes. So what better time to start supporting the latest technologies? “One of these is HTML5, which is raising the bar for cross browser support for advanced user interface features, and is now supported by a large and rapidly growing percentage of the visitors to netflix.com. In addition many TV based devices now embed webkit, which is the HTML5 compatible technology that underpins the Safari and Chrome browsers,” Cockcroft writes. 

It’s interesting that Cockcroft never actually mentions the video capabilities of HTML5, instead he talks about the “advanced user interface features.” Still, I think we all know what he means.
He also points out that Netflix is looking to hire to make this transition happen. The one posting he highlights is for a Senior User Interface Engineer — HTML5. The position description reads as follows:

Are you passionate about building great website experiences used by millions of visitors each day? Come to Netflix where we are using HTML5 based web technologies to move ecommerce directly onto to televisions in our customers’ living rooms. As part of our Customer Acquisition team, you will lead the way to our internationalized television user interface designed to help new customers find Netflix and start streaming movies in seconds. This new experience will be deployed to HTML5 capable embedded browsers and served from our cutting edge cloud based backend service.

This move shouldn’t be all that surprising considering that Netflix was one of the first apps to embrace the iPad, bringing its videos (h264 encoded) to the device through a native app. Still, this is a huge potential win for HTML5, presuming it happens.

Introduction to Basic Router Definition

According to my trainer, when I'm taking ESNA class, Mr. Raj said Routers is something (software or hardware) that usually used to join or connect two or more logical subnets, which do not necessarily map one-to-one to the physical interfaces of the router. Router usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information.

Physically, Routers contain a specialized operating system such as Cisco's IOS. Router component consist of RAM, ROM, NVRAM, flash memory, and one or more processors (CPU), as well as two or more network interfaces. Router generally provides connectivity inside enterprises, between enterprises and the Internet, and inside Internet Service Providers (ISP).

Router have four different modes. The first mode is user mode, then we have privileged mode. For more deeper, we can go to global configuration mode which is used to change the configuration. The final mode is specific configuration mode.

mode 1: Router>
mode 2: Router#
mode 3: Router-config#
mode 4: Router-config-specific#


Router provides two routing types which are static routing and dynamic routing. Static routing used to reduce overhead and for security while in dynamic routing information is learned from other routers and routing protocols adjust routes automatically. Static routing does not have the scalability compared to dynamic routing. For now, these are the basic introduction about Router that I can review for the time being. Later on, for other detail information about router, I'll post it next time.

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