<video> element - easy way to integrate video into web pages

Opera releases experimental version with support of <video> element

[Tastatura]

t's time to make video a first-class citizen of the web. We, the users, have video cameras in our pockets and the bandwidth to tranfer more clips and streams than we can watch. What's missing is a an easy way to integrate video into web pages, and native support for video in browsers. We, the web community, should address this by adding a video element to HTML:
<video src="demo.ogg">

At Opera, we have built an experimental version that has native support for Ogg Theora

[people.opera.com ]

Proposal (DRAFT) for the standard can be found at:
[whatwg.org ]

Also interesting/educational video on the subject can be found among Google's Tech Talk series (tech talks held at Google and made available to public):

[video.google.com ]

[Tastatura]

I guess nobody cares about <video> element or Opera's exp. ver. :)

[encyclo]

I'm interested! :)

There's a bit more discussion about "HTML 5" and the work of the WHAT-WG here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

The WHAT-WG drafts are likely to become the basis for the new W3C HTML working group's future recommendations.

I like this idea, as it is a better solution than overloading the

object

element even more. I'm glad also that the browser makers are starting to implement HTML 5 elements, even if only experimentally. It at last is giving some substance to the HTML development work.