You’ve probably noticed that HTML5 is now the new hot. It has lots of new features (dive into some of them here) and is being supported bit-by-bit by the better browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera).
HTML5 video (an actual video tag) is being beta tested by youtube, and while the way different browsers support it varies, we’re starting to see some nice UI treatments for it.
I can’t stop looking at this Sublime player for example.
This is an MP4 video file called right into the page, with Javascript for controls and CSS for style. It even has a way of going back to a flash player for IE. And yup, unlike anything in Flash, this video plays on an iphone.
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2 Responses to “HTML5 and video”
January 26th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Also video for everybody, thanks jonathan stegall.
January 26th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Dev.Opera has a good article where they’ve applied captions to a video element using CSS and JS – http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/accessible-html5-video-with-javascripted-captions/
I really hope browser can settle on a video format soon. Even if it means settling on two (much like img can display multiple image formats).
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