Using HTML5 and the new Video tag

So i’m totally loving the new HTML5 – no more bothering to encode your video files into flv, you just insert them straight in with the<video></video> tags

<video width=”480″ src=”http://www.idontplaydarts.com/wp-content/uploads/sample.ogg” controls=”true”>
Sorry, your browser doesn’t support the video tag…
</video>

So that ends up looking something like

Hah, awesome. Cant wait for Firefox 3.5 to support all the other cool HTML5 features. In case your wondering what the video is – its the cold cold rain we get in England… during “summer”.. (note there isn’t any sound)

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