If you want to watch Internet-delivered video on your PC, the vast majority of Web sites have settled on a single, consistent way to do that. That's the good news. The bad news is that this single, consistent delivery system is Adobe Flash, with all its security and stability issues. But now a new way to deliver video through a browser is coming to the fore, one intended to be native to the browser itself: HTML 5's <VIDEO> tag. In this article I'll look at how the <VIDEO> tag can be used with the new generation of browsers. I'll also examine how parts of this equation -- the browsers and, to some degree, the video formats themselves -- are also still very much in flux.
Dive Into HTML 5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. mark Pilgrim publishes Drafts periodically, as time permits. The final manuscript will be published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint. The Work shall remain online under the CC-BY-3.0 License.
Starting with Safari 4, iPhone/iPad OS3, Chrome 5, and Opera 10.5 (Desktop), HTML5 Local Databases are now supported. I’ve been reading about local databases for quite some time and decided to do a write up with some basic examples on how to get started.
