[CmonDev]

Their live feed yesterday was only available on Safari. Isn't it obvious that they want their herd only inside of a barn?

[kalleboo]

It was streamed in the open HTTP Live Streaming protocol. It just so happens that the only web browser that implements it in Safari. Worked fine in VLC.

Is there any other way to do live streams embedded on a web page without a proprietary Flash plugin?

[frewsxcv]

Hardly open. It'd be like if Google rewrote the Gmail frontend to native dart and then just blamed the other browsers for not having a native Dart VM. Dart is even standardized (by ECMA), unlike HLS which isn't standardized.

Relevant: http://annevankesteren.nl/2010/09/draft-vs-standard

[runjake]

> they want their herd only inside of a barn?

Awesome. Who should I switch to that doesn't want that?

[_random_]

Apple is the most extreme example. I was able to watch Microsoft's live streams in Chrome for example.

[jonknee]

To be fair it wasn't even available with Safari for most of it. Brought back memories from keynotes a decade ago where the stream barely worked.

[romanovcode]

I don't get why this is down-voted. I think it is excellent point.

My thoughts exactly when tried to view the live stream.

[sbuk]

Its being downvoted because of the derogatory naming of Apple users.