Video tag in Dailymotion: Flash out the door

Download Firefox 3.5 beta next to your current browser, follow this link, and see a flash free version of Daily motion, which uses the html < video > tag instead of Flash.
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“Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to open video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform – the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here.

No plugins? No Flash?
Nope – for all content from Motionmakers and Official Users we are using the new HTML < video > tag, supported by Firefox 3.5, to display the video, and not any proprietary technology.”


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Posted on: Friday, May 29, 2009 by: in category: News