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Apple uses a bog standard <video>-tag with a h.264 encoded video as its source. Every browser that can play that video (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari) will
by arrrg 14y ago
Apple uses a bog standard <video>-tag with a h.264 encoded video as its source. Every browser that can play that video (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari) will be able to play that video. If your browser can’t (Firefox), then it won’t be able to play that video and Apple is so nice and offers a sensible fallback.
QuickTime is never required.
- dangrossman 14y agoThis is the first link on the iPhone page: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2012/ http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2012/ There is no <video> tag, there is a "Get Quicktime" button, no video plays in my Chrome browser, and here's a screenshot of the network tab showing it downloaded a .MOV file with content-type movie/quicktime, not h.264: http://i.imgur.com/h8dO8.png http://i.imgur.com/h8dO8.png
- arrrg 14y agoThat’s HTTP live streaming. Chrome doesn’t support that, so it gets the fallback. QuickTime is never required.
- dangrossman 14y ago> QuickTime is never required. How do you propose I watch this QuickTime video without QuickTime? Have you forgotten the context of this conversation, about the purported desire to support all major browsers?
- arrrg 14y agoIt’s not a QuickTime video. That’s my main point. I disagree that Apple’s goal here is to make it work with all major browsers in all situations.