On 25-Jan-2010, at 18:59, Barry Carlyon wrote: > Surely tho some clever person will write a plugin for Firefox to enable the > H.264 codec, assuming they can get a version that will plugin/addon nicely....
As far as I know, FF provides no plugin interface for <video> and <audio> codecs. It’s been suggested, numerous times, mostly in the context of… > I'd be more than happy to direct users to a site to download said plugin if > and when I get around to adding HTML5 Video to my project site.... > > (have they finished the HTML 5 Spec yet?) Short answer: “mostly” Long answer, it doesn’t matter: it could be finished, locked, done, never-changing and be completely irrelevant, or it could be in a state of comparative flux but be well-supported enough that it’s a big deal. I think it sits somewhere between the two: just as with CSS3, you need to know what support is out there and how to degrade gracefully, and browsers don’t really implement stuff (at a basic level) which is subject to heavy amounts of change without explicitly making it clear that it’s incompatible (like with -webkit-border-radius and -moz-border-radius vs. border-radius in CSS). There are things that implementations certainly need to shore up, especially in the brand new things like <video> and <audio>, but this may well come about by consensus and end up in HTML 5.1 rather than anything else. There’s a lot of good stuff in HTML5, though, even aside from the contentious bits, and some of it is quite well-suported already. I’m a big fan of the HTML5 form elements, for example. M. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
