2009-06-02
Video for Everybody - HTML 5 video fallback
Kroc Camen has made available Video for Everybody, an HTML snippet that uses HTML 5 video if it's available in the browser, otherwise falling back to different video playback options.
What's interesting about 'Video for Everybody' is it doesn't use scripting at all. It uses the fallback mechanism built into HTML. The video playback mechanism used, in order of availability in the browser, is:
- HTML 5 video
- Adobe Flash
- Quicktime
- Windows Media Player
- Text explaining how to get video support if none of the above is available
The fallback options work across multiple browsers and even works on the iPhone. The 'Video For Everybody' page also goes through how to encode videos in Ogg and MP4 format.
