iPad does in fact support H.264

Posted Feb 4, 2010 6:25 UTC (Thu) by bvdm (guest, #42755)
In reply to: iPad does in fact support H.264 by n8willis
Parent article: HTML5 video element codec debate reignited

I apologize, you are right. But man, that is a awfully clumsy sentence. Way too many clauses.

iPad does in fact support H.264

Posted Feb 4, 2010 14:35 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link] (2 responses)

I love clauses; the more, the merrier -- and for that I apologize to no one.

Nate

iPad does in fact support H.264

Posted Feb 5, 2010 11:34 UTC (Fri) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link] (1 responses)

I would like to politely and constructively suggest to refrain from such elaborate sentence construction. Many of your readers are not native speakers and will have trouble grokking what you are trying to say. I myself had to reread the sentence although I think I can claim with some confidence that, for a non-native speaker, I have an above-average command of the English language.

iPad does in fact support H.264

Posted Feb 10, 2010 10:00 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Wow, now I realize what this weird "respectively" meant!

I do not think that the use of English makes much difference; this sentence is just too convoluted (in any language).

Otherwise a very interesting summary.