Archive for January, 2010

HTML5

Here’s something a little bit strange. I just received the ever reliable and high quality SitePoint tech times which has a lead article on HTML5.

The article suggests that I take a look at the YouTube html5 video player. I rushed over there excitedly using my Chrome browser and I see this….

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Do you notice anything strange where it says “Supported Browsers”?

Now take a look at this page in Internet Explorer 8

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hmmm….supported browsers include Google Chrome.

Anyway the beta worked nicely but I found it kinda funny that the instructions page didn’t.

Here is the subtle change when watching the video using HTML 5.

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