HTML 5 Video Element Is A Bad Joke

I’ll say it if no one else will–the video tag in HTML 5 looks to be a bad joke. Leave it to a standards body to turn back the clock and give us the same garbage that nearly killed Web video in the first place.

From Mike Chambers’ blog post on the topic:

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Can anybody honestly come up come up with a cogent argument for the currently proposed solution?



2 Responses to “ “HTML 5 Video Element Is A Bad Joke”

  1. Kris says:

    Belows a great example for video format which fits the above. Its still in beta and doesn’t support sound, but if you make the woosh sounds its really easy to get into.
    http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/screencams/ascii-matrix.html
    and it scales great with very little excess pixilation just hit ctrl(apl)+plus.

    Lets start the petition – I’d sign it.

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