Use html5 video tags in html with flash fallback for old browsers

by chunkyslink on 3/1/2010, 1:30 PM with 32 comments
  • by mseebach on 3/1/2010, 2:04 PM

    Today is the first day in the rest of Flashs' life.

  • by zeugma on 3/1/2010, 2:40 PM

    Works with HTML5 video on Firefox 3.6 but Fail with IE7 (the flash load but the video can't be played).

  • by pixelbeat on 3/1/2010, 2:35 PM

    I don't see any video in firefox 2.0.0.13 at http://static.etianen.com/html5media/

  • by KirinDave on 3/1/2010, 4:55 PM

    I appreciate the software and I think it's cool.

    But really guys? I need jQuery to do this? You really couldn't write it without jQuery?

  • by ErrantX on 3/1/2010, 2:12 PM

    Requires javascript to be enabled - so not a complete catch all for a small minority (still cool though)

  • by diN0bot on 3/1/2010, 3:49 PM

    how can i use html5 video tags with youtube videos? that is, there are youtube videos i want to display using video tags rather than an embedded flash object. is it possible to find the mp4 URI?

  • by deafmetal on 3/1/2010, 4:03 PM

    Trouble is, one still has to encode one's video in 3 formats; h264, ogg/thora, and flv for the fallback.

    That ain't progress my friends.

  • by blahedo on 3/1/2010, 6:14 PM

    Yes, because I definitely want to embed a tag that tells google exactly when anybody accesses my page. Don't they have enough data on us already?