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Marc
Marc

Reputation: 1740

Firefox 21.0 HTML5 Video

Can I vent for a minute -- Mozilla released Firefox 21.0 not long ago and it's supposed support for H.264 video is confusing to say the least.

I noticed that FF21 changes the HTML5 video tag to an object tag when the page loads.

This code that I wrote ... 

<video controls='controls' preload='none' width='320' height='240'>
    <source src='test.mp4' type='video/mp4' />
</video>

... automagically becomes this code after the page loads ...

<object width="320" height="240" type="application/x-ms-wmp" uimode="full">
    <param name="autostart" value="false">
    <param name="url" value="test.mp4">
</object>

Why does FF21 change the code from VIDEO to OBJECT? I'm on Windows 7, so I'm not surprised my HTML5 video becomes an IE player -- but is this true HTML5 support?

By the way, this isn't a big deal if you've hard-coded the URL of the video file into the source attribute. But if you're loading the video dynamically, does this mean developers have to start manipulating the PARAM/URL attribute instead of the VIDEO/SOURCE attribute IF the user is using FF21+ on Windows7? My if/else statements for loading the proper video file are growing with every new browser release/upgrade.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 277

Answers (1)

motiz88
motiz88

Reputation: 123

Running FF21 on Windows 7 here - not seeing this behavior. The page loads, the video plays and Firebug shows the video tag intact. Could this be caused by an add-on / extension?

Upvotes: 3

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