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
<luke@dashjr.org> 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.
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Nathan Cerny
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