HTML5 video for Internet Explorer
Posted by Percy Cabello on February 22nd, 2010 • Tags:
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Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t support HTML5 <audio> or <video> tags which allow easy audio and video embedding, and Microsoft haven’t said whether they plan to implement them in IE9.

Fortunately, a workaround is closer thanks to Christian Adams who is working in a new plugin that would make IE capable of handling these new tags.

According to Christian, it’s in early development status so there are no progress bar or any control, but they should follow soon.

Check this screencast to see it in action:

Via Chris Double’s blog.

Comments
LouCypher said on February 22, 2010, 12:56 am:

or download Firefox

Dwight Stegall said on February 22, 2010, 3:13 am:

Since Microsoft refuses to stick to Web Standards it’s nice to see someone finding ways around it. Keep up the good work. :) I loved Microsoft’s reaction to the Chrome Frame Plugin. I’m still laughing about that one. :)

Ferdinand said on February 22, 2010, 3:54 am:

What do you guys get on the video with cpu usage? I have mozillalinks.org always zoomed to 150% and am running it on a PhenomII X4 3Ghz. And it uses more than 100% cpu on 1 core.