You still need a renderer to display the video - whether you embed a java object, a flash object, a Windows Media Player object, etc...you're still going to leave out a segment of the crowd. No matter what method you chose you're still using a proprietary plugin - you just have to choose the one you think the most people will have. I think that's flash. The video tag is new in the HTML 5.0 standard - a standard that is still being drafted, and not supported in any modern browser yet. The current generation of browsers (Firefox 3, Safari 3.1, IE 8, etc) have limited support of the draft, but from what I'm seeing the video tag isn't included in their support.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 14:10:13 Nathan Cerny wrote:
Ah, but don't forget that a good majority of the streaming media out
there
is flash-based. It's not all flashy menus and pretty animations. It
does
actually have a useful purpose too!
Just because it is widespread doesn't change the fact that video embedding should be done with the <video> element (or, for older browsers, <object> directly) and not use some proprietary plugin. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug