HTML5’s Video tag already works in IE
Just add these two lines to the top of your page:
<script src="http://visitmix.com/dlr/dlr.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://visitmix.com/dlr/gestaltmedia.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://visitmix.com/dlr/gestaltmedia.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Of course, this is a hack workaround that uses Silverlight to emulate the Video object, but going from “doesn’t work at all” to “make users install a plugin, once” is a pretty good deal. Here’s the original post describing it.
Pity it only supports H.264 video. If we could get a Silverlight equivalent of the Cortado applet (or hey — even the Cortado applet) that makes it support Ogg Theora, then I’d be happy.
Jeremy
1 Feb 10 at 10:03 pm