IE does still support custom CSS filters, which is what I used for the pixelation effect on an embeded media player using the ‘windowlessVideo’ property to render the video without overlay – thereby allowing the video to render with the CSS filter effects. there are all sorts of other filter effects, chroma-key being one of them, although I don’t know if its that useful in IE, it uses only a single color. The matrix transform is interesting though, it can be used to rotate images/video (or any html element) in IE.

I’m glad canvas is supporting some of these things with video, it gives more possibilities for interesting cross-browser content.

This is from 2003 or 2004, and it’s IE only! hah

real-time video mixer with pixelation
http://www.atomicmandala.com

A Direct3D example – tested on IE 5.5 on WinME and IE6, texture-mapped 3D animation in the browser in 1999.

http://www.atomicmandala.com/direct3d/

Direct3D ended with IE6, it became a security risk or maybe silverlight killed off interest within MS for continuing to support it, and now it seems very difficult to find any information on the internet about Direct3D at all. I’d be very interested in seeing the docs for it if anyone knows how to access them.

great story. I believe you, I remember seeing a demo of something like that back in the day.

still – I’m fired up to try this at home tonight w/FF 3.1, and that this (video canvas element) will someday come to popular video sites instead of only via an add-on (flash).