Re: WebM, HTML5 and the like

On Jul 21, 8:39 pm, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/21/10 12:36 PM, Babele Dunnit wrote:
>
> > in my embedding (from codebase of FF 3.6.7), when I try to view a WebM
> > video on YouTube
>
> 3.6.x is based on Gecko 1.9.2.x, which doesn't have webm support.
>
>  > I tried with several WebM videos correctly working
>
> > with a regular Firefox
>
> A regular 1.9.2-based firefox?
>
> -Boris

Ha. I did it again. I was playing with FF4 beta 1 and WebM was
working, but my embedding was crashing. So I reverted my embedding to
a FF 3.6.7 codebase, and I did not realize that the "several WebM
videos correctly working" are correctly working with a Firefox using
the FLASH PLAYER, which for some reason gets called even on HTML5/WebM
videos... shame on me. In fact, this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxQiI8c1Bs&feature=related

does not fall back to flash player when loaded, and it does not work
with FF 3.6.7, even with flash player installed... but it works with a
FF 4 beta without any video plugin (GREAT!!).

So: will HTML5/WebM videos work out-of-the-box in my embedding (when
using Gecko 2)? :)

Thanks!
Aaron/Babele