Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Why HTML5 video?

Most video on the web today plays in Flash. With full HD-quality TV episodes, personal YouTube videos, and recorded lectures streaming across the internet, what more does HTML5 video have to offer?

The <video> tag does much more than paste a video inside a web page, like Flash does. It makes the video a live, interacting part of the page. A page using just HTML5 and JavaScript can analyze the video, frame-by-frame, as it's playing. Early examples present new video player concepts, change the page's background to fit the video's color scheme, and track objects within a video. Much more will be done as more people can access the features.

HTML5, JavaScript, and OGG/Theora are free and open for innovators. The next generation of online video is open.

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