W:HTML 5 support in Safari 3.1
From Bjoern Hassler
The recent release of Safari 3.1 supports HTML 5 audio/video elements, also see HTML 5 video tag and Ogg.
It's of course good to have this support. However, unfortunately, it doesn't really get around the plugin/formats issues. For instance, Opera and Firefox seem to be supporting Ogg/Theora, while Safari will support QuickTime formats. (Though, hopefully they will also support formats playable through supported plugins, see HTML 5 video tag and Ogg.)
Cf. image element: This is useful, because all browsers understand jpg, png, gif. But this wasn't always the case, and even isn't fully the case, see http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html!
But having the audio/video elements is a good thing, and will hopefully lead to some convergence!
Links:
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307467
- http://www.css3.info/safari-31-pushes-css3-support-forward/ (some discussion of the tags in the comments)
- http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/a-call-for-video-on-the-web-opera-vid/
- http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/11/08/experimental-video-build-released-on-opera-labs
- http://webkit.org/blog/140/html5-media-support/
- http://ajaxian.com/archives/html5-media-support-video-and-audio-tags-and-scriptability
- http://www.apple.com/safari/
- http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36515/118/
Ogg/Theora in QuickTime:
