I noticed something kind of weird today... Dailymotion will only let you use Firefox to access their html5 content: http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo And Youtube will let you use everything, except Firefox, to access theirs: http://www.youtube.com/html5 Isn't the point of html5 to break down barriers, and to eliminate the need for plugins like Flash and Silverlight? Why are these sites setting these kinds of restrictions?
Dailymotion: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideoframe Line Number 137, Column 79: var familyFilterUri = '/family_filter?urlback=%2Fopenvideoframe&enable=1'; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Html5 fail. This is the future?
Simple answers: 1) Dailymotion are idiots. 2) Firefox developers are idiots and only support Theora video whereas Youtube is using h264. Companies such as Apple, Google support h264 as it is the better video format, and uses less bandwidth. It is patent encumbered and will start costing a lot of money to stream at some point (can't recall the date) Firefox support Theora as it is open and is thought to be patent free. If the Firefox developers did things properly it wouldn't matter. Apple for instance have done so with Safari so all you have to do is install the Theora codec for quicktime and Theora videos then work in Safari (at least on a mac dunno about windows) I believe Opera are also doing things correctly with their latest development versions. Who knows what Microsoft will do.
For some reason, you have to turn the family filter on for it to work. Yes it is. A bug on 1 website isn't the end all / be all of html5. Lol. That's a nice way to summarize it. I see now. Firefox is trying to support ogg and ogm stuff. Thank you for the explanation.
