Comments on: Apple goes live with HTML5 video

By: ipads

ipads — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:33:05 +0000

No I hate quicktime, never used it and never will.

By: tdunn94

tdunn94 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:08:10 +0000

Awesome.

It’s really nice to watch video on the web with those controls, and I haven’t seen it fail in any decent browser. I love the fact that video is showing up on the web in the video tag. This apple player puts a slick interface on it.

By: rdza

rdza — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:46:24 +0000

Most video fails on iphone 3GS like jx12345 says. At least for the new iMac vid it appears to be a .mov file at heart and iphone only supports mp4 base profile like Brother Mark says. Odds are the other mp4 files that fail on the site aren’t base profile.
Oh, and still no html5 video tag styling|scripting on iphone either, mp4 base profile vids are always fullscreen.
I guess they figure if you have an iphone they don’t need to sell you anything else.

By: 191279

191279 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:31:09 +0000

Great!
i’m pretty impressed, at least they try, so we – developpers – can start using HTML5 with 1 browser less to worry about if it’s supported or not!
so why the complaining about browser detect/javascript, it’s not apples fault that browsers like internet ex…. choose to go back instead of forward!

By: jx12345

jx12345 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:00:31 +0000

Forgot to mention – the new iMac video fails. Some other videos run ok. So just i minor glitch then and not an all-around major fail I expected it to be at first.

By: jx12345

jx12345 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:55:07 +0000

Just discovered a nice bug – video fails on iPhone 3GS with an “unsupported format” message :).

By: blepore

blepore — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:26:57 +0000

I’ll be a bit more impressed when they don’t require a browser detect/javascript to pull it off.

Still nice to get the video tag pushed. Sorta.

By: io

io — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:01:46 +0000

Demands Quicktime and won’t play in Firefox 3.5.5pre on Linux Ubuntu 9.04.

Bloody Apple there is no need for the crap :\

By: BonoboBoner

BonoboBoner — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:49:38 +0000

Works great on my Safari.

By: Jeria

Jeria — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:15:40 +0000

They use Quicktime for IE as well.

By: kommen

kommen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:52:58 +0000

It seems they just leverage the video tag Safari as only a mp4/H.264 version of the video is provided. For Firefox 3.5 under Mac the Quicktime Plugin is used. I haven’t tried IE but I guess they’ll fall back to Flash there.

By: stoimen

stoimen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:03:18 +0000

Great!