Ant wrote:
http://www.rockstargames.com/videos/video/11267 and
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=160425
Is anyone else getting this error [Subject: "We've detected that your
device or browser does not support this HTML5 format video. Please
watch on the most recent generation device and browser."] in their
SeaMonkey web browsers? Or is it just my very old computer and OS? :/
My guess is that it's your old OS. I don't know about SeaMonkey, so
my guess is based on the (possibly wrong) assumption that SM deals
with web video the same way Fx does.
For a while now Windows 7+ Firefox has been able to play mp4s without
any helper apps, leveraging Windows Media Foundation. But Windows XP
does not have Windows Media Foundation. So I think you need a plugin
for those mp4s. If you use a plugin or any other handler, make sure
media.windows-media-foundation.enabled is set to 'false'.
Shouldn't SM be able to play HTML5 videos natively without any addons?
OK, well, yes and no... The SeaMonkey project has been bragging about
HTML 5 support since at least v. 2.25.
Others are more expert than I on the subject, but I see no <video> tag
on either page as prescribed by W3C. The first page appropriately
specifies <!DOCTYPE html> for HTML 5, while the second page specifies
HTML 4.01. So even though the video is an mp4, I'm not sure if SM will
think to draw upon its HTML 5 handling routines.
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