Nice one: If browser supports <video> tag, then it uses that, otherwise applet 
gets loaded. And I was about to start bitching about how applets usually means 
large download, but this one is small. Good job.

 Having followed this HTML5 debate for a while, including the recent spat 
between Adobe and Apple over the iPad not including Flash (best summarised as: 
"Flash is cr*p, eats battery" says Apple, "not true" says Adobe), the sooner we 
move to HTML5, the better. But of course now we are stuck in a debate over 
video codecs (again, summary: "Ogg is cool, patent-free, is the future" says 
Mozilla;  "yes, but no decent hardware acceleration, and we've invested lots in 
MPEG codecs" says Apple, Google; And of course M$ is just trying to figure out 
how to screw up the entire landscape. Except it no longer has the dominance it 
once had....)   
On Mar 02, 2010, at 10:08, Reinier Battenberg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> we recently used another trick here
> 
> http://www.shares.ug/
> 
> it uses a java applet to play the ogv file, as not all closed platforms 
> support 
> ogg vorbis.
> 
> Sorry, the video is currently hosted in europe, and its about 20MB. You can 
> check the code of the page though.
> 
> 
> -- 
> rgds,
> 
> Reinier Battenberg
> Director
> Mountbatten Ltd.
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> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 09:17:21 Peter Hyeroba wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> Some good reading and cool ways of embedding videos.
>> 
>> http://code.google.com/p/html5media/
>> 
>> 
>> HP.
>> 
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