In its first State of HTML5 Video report, LongTail tracks browser support and format fragmentation.

The HTML5 era is already here, it just isn’t evenly distributed yet. Browsers vary in their levels of support for the emerging standard, and developers are pushing the envelope with hacks ...

HTML5’s Encrypted Media Extensions have been somewhat controversial in the web standards community because they enable DRM support in web browsers.

Microsoft has put its stake in the ground and committed to supporting H.264 in Internet Explorer 9. That the next browser version would support H.264 HTML5 video was no surprise (though the ...

The other browsers offer some support, but they’re widely considered to be more buggy — and inconsistent with the way the ideas are implemented in the Mozilla browser.

Apple should change its HTML5 showcase page to reflect the true spirit of the standard: interoperability and cross-browser support.

While HTML5 has gotten a lot of attention, it's not yet ubiquitous on the desktop. That's because not all browsers support HTML5 video. "When you look at a market for HTML5 playback, you've got to ...

Getting your videos ready for HTML5-friendly formats is a whole other topic, one covered by Mark Pilgrim's video encoding section of Dive Into HTML5, as recommended by Webmonkey.

But HTML5 is so new that we are getting flashbacks to the late 1990s with sites refusing to accept certain browsers. To illustrate this point, Microsoft has an browser test page to show the ...

Whatever you think of Microsoft's attempt to carve out a new category of "native" HTML5 applications, there's no question that Microsoft's own applications are going to be influenced by what's ...

In any case, the HTML5 drag-and-drop spec smoothes away many of the browser differences. In theory, the cross-browser scripts won’t be necessary as long as all browsers follow the standard in ...

The standards body that oversees HTML5 has released the results of its first tests designed to measure the level of HTML5 support in web browsers. The results, surprisingly, put Internet Explorer ...