Established<video> on Pause?
Ars Technica has posted a very good summary of the debate over the HTML5 <video> tag which allows video to be played back without the proprietary Flash plugin: Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate – Ars Technica
I particularly like commenter mpat’s prediction for how this will likely play out:
The way it’s going, Youtube will use H.264 as its primary source, because that’s the only thing that will run acceptably on mobile platforms, and use Flash as a fallback, because nothing else will work with IE. This means that Safari and Chrome will run Youtube better and cooler than Mozilla, which will still get Flash. Even sites that do use Theora will run better on Safari and Chrome, once the appropriate plugins have been installed. I just can’t see how Mozilla can ever win this.