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Will the video tag work with any video format across browsers? be limited?


Firefox and Opera are both backed Ogg Theora [1] [2]. WebKit (Safari and, I guess?, Chrome) looks like it has QuickTime formats with more being supported down the road [3]. (These are all pretty old articles I remember from the top of my head. I'd predict that the body of video formats will probably stabilize soon with Theora winning.)

[1]: http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/05/support-for-html-video-...

[2]: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/a-call-for-video-on-the-w...

[3]: http://webkit.org/blog/140/html5-media-support/




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