Test of the HTML 5 video tag…

WARNING: If your browser is “lucky” enough to support the video tag (like certain beta Firefox 3 releases, or Safari) then there should be an image below. It might also slow the loading of the page a bit. Be patient. If you aren’t lucky, it should load really fast.

Finally, finally, HTML 5 is working toward implementing a VIDEO tag (similar to the all pervasive IMG tag) which just works, out of the box. Safari and certain beta versions of Firefox already implement this tag. If I read various news reports properly, the iPhone’s browswer will implement it too.

Wouldn’t it be swell if we could just skip all the plug in nonsense and display video on our webpages as easily as images?

6 thoughts on “Test of the HTML 5 video tag…

  1. marxy

    Hey it works in Safari 4, great stuff.

    Atom Bomb.

    I can’t believe it’s taken this long to have a video tag. Is this the beginning of the end for Flash?

  2. marxy

    Hmm, on second thought this really slows down the page load. Perhaps it needs some more thought.

  3. Brad

    Works on Safari on my iPhone 3.0. You need to tap the movie and it displays in the normal media player, but it still works.

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