I agree with you - at least if there are going to be standards - let there be standards.

Lacking compatibility shouldn't qualify.

Anyway, I read up quite a bit about the tag a few days ago and came across this fantastic page regarding it: http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html

This should give a good idea of what's going on:

<video> element support
IE8 - No
IE7 - No
Fx3.5 - Yes
Fx3.0 - No
Saf4 - Yes
Saf3 - Yes
Chrome - Yes
Opera - No

And then a Video/Audio/Container compatibility overview: http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html#what-works

   "There is no single combination of containers and codecs that works in all HTML5 browsers.

       To make your video watchable across all of these devices and platforms, you’re going to have to encode your video more than once."

Conclusion: Stick with Flash until they can agree on what's going to be used...

(This post was last modified: 16/02/2010 03:44 AM by S7*.)