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New plugin brings HTML5 video support to Internet Explorer
I strongly suspect that the vast majority of web users out there who are currently interested in (or using) sites with HTML5-powered goodies tend to run browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Still, if you happen to be saddled with Internet Explorer and want to experiment with HTML5 sites, you're out of luck.
At least you were out of luck. Developer Christian Adams has created a plugin that brings a sliver of the functionality (the video tag) to IE. It's still considered a preview release at this point -- there are no playback controls and you need to specify an attribute within the <video> tag to enable IE playback.
Who knows, maybe Microsoft will bolt on support with an IE update at some point in the future. Maybe it'll be included in IE9. If not, Adam's plugin is taking shape nicely and should give users who want to take advantage of the <video> tag a viable option.
At least you were out of luck. Developer Christian Adams has created a plugin that brings a sliver of the functionality (the video tag) to IE. It's still considered a preview release at this point -- there are no playback controls and you need to specify an attribute within the <video> tag to enable IE playback.
Who knows, maybe Microsoft will bolt on support with an IE update at some point in the future. Maybe it'll be included in IE9. If not, Adam's plugin is taking shape nicely and should give users who want to take advantage of the <video> tag a viable option.
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Subscribe to commentsjkroederFeb 22nd 2010 11:59AM
I'm not going to try this since I don't use IE but going by the screenshot, I'm guessing this is only for OGG HTML5 codecs.
So one thing to note for IE users is that sites like Youtube use h264 for their HTML5 implementation and not OGG. Therefore this won't work on Youtube.
Hugh Isaacs IIFeb 22nd 2010 12:34PM
This is sort of pointless since, someone already made something like this in Silverlight.
http://www.atoker.com/blog/2010/02/04/html5-theora-video-codec-for-silverlight/
And then there's always Google Chrome Frame
http://google.com/chromeframe
I'd say once someone makes this in Flash every other solution will be irrelevant.
Adrian VFeb 22nd 2010 1:18PM
Since this only works for OGG how are IE users supposed to try out the new YouTube html5 video? Simple, use Google Chrome Frame which has been out for quite a while now and comes with the added benefit of running Chrome.
SkyFeb 22nd 2010 9:12PM
Why would you even want to use this or any other similar stopgap solution?!? (other than for dogmatic reasons of course...)
The HTML 5's *complete* specs are equivalent to less than what Silverlight 1.0 offered 3 years ago, will be implemented slightly differently by each browser adding to dev costs, and the video tag is just one tiny tiny little sliver of it.
GlenFeb 23rd 2010 12:20AM
"Plus" Going by all the crap happening around the spec of HTML5, it will not become official until something like 2015!! Seriously, if people actually stopped "jumping on the HTML5 bandwagon" and actually read the sh*tstorm going down over HTML5 by the actual designers... they'd quickly realise its not going to be here any time soon!