Everyone else is arguing about HTML 5’s video codecs. Why can’t I?

Ryan Paul at Ars Technica wrote this great overview of the argument . In short: HTML 5 includes a native tag so people don’t need to rely on Flash or other proprietary plug-ins to play video in pages. It’s currently only supported by the absolute newest versions of Firefox and Safari (including Mobile Safari), and Google will add support to Chrome shortly. Internet Explorer is unlikely to ever support it in a useful way. Opera has probably supported it since 1997, but nobody remembered to