The popular video hosting site Youtube has been offering limited beta HTML5 viewing capabilities for some time now on their website. HTML5 video playback was limited to Google Chrome and Safari, and only directly available on Youtube after joining the beta channel. Webmasters and Internet users who wanted to embed videos on third party websites [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera 10.60 Beta Released, Fastest Browser Gets Even Faster
Someone must have flipped a switch over at the Opera headquarters in Norway. The developers of the popular Opera browser have accelerated development of the browser over the last months. The release of the highly acclaimed Opera 10.50 did not seem to have slowed down the developers who have now made available the first beta [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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HTML5 Test Your Web Browser
Most Internet users who read about HTML5 and how it is going to change the web might think it is all about HTML5 video as the controversy surrounding it was all over the news lately. But HTML5 promises more than just a new video web standard, it introduces several new elements and attributes while getting [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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WebM Video
Google yesterday officially announced the release of the Open Source, royalty free video format WebM making it a third contender for the HTML5 video crown after H.264 and Theora. WebM video might however be exactly the compromise that most companies where looking for. You might remember that the major browser developers could not agree on [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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What’s The Best Web Browser For HTML5 Video Playback?
You might have heard about HTML5 and specifically HTML5 Video in the news lately. How it is supposed to replace Flash based video players eventually. Some websites are already experimenting with HTML5 video players including Youtube and Dailymotion. Two standards are currently competing with each other to become the HTML5 video standard: Ogg Theora and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Internet Explorer HTML5 Video Tag Support
Internet Explorer 8 does not support the new HTML5 tags video or canvas and neither do previous versions of the Microsoft web browser. It is likely that Internet Explorer 9 will be released with full or at least partial support for those tags. Christian Adam has released an experimental add-on for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that [...]