And most of all, it's easy when you are starting a project from scratch. Then again, Douglas Crockford describes HTML5 as a "giant step in the wrong direction".
He didn't explain HOW "HTML5 videos are more searchable and indexable."
Is there an attribute or property that search engines pick up that isn't available when you embed flash?
A lot of the best additions in HTML5 are in the DOM. Search engines don't run JavaScripts so it doesn't seem like HTML5 adds much in the way of on-page optimization. Maybe the new section tags will have a benefit but this article wasn't about those tags.
I've been working on HTML5 video features on a website for several days now. I'm finding that an 800x450 (16:9) video at good quality plays smoothly (perfectly, in fact) when using a Flash player, but is choppy and slow in Safari using the HTML5 video tag. I've tried various bitrate, buffer, and quality settings, without any improvement.
As a result, I'm now working on using Flash to play the video in all cases except when Flash does not exist, because this is just not working out for me. Maybe I'm just not doing it right, but it beats me what the issue is.
Are you resizing the video at all in the browser? When messing around with it, I found that I could play 720p video with the video tag smoothly without any formatting in Chrome and Firefox, but that setting it's size attributes to something other than the actual file size made it slow to the point of being unwatchable.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to the current thinking on how to create backwards compatible HTML 5 pages? I'd like to take advantage where possible, but not leave older browsers in the dark...
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A lot of the best additions in HTML5 are in the DOM. Search engines don't run JavaScripts so it doesn't seem like HTML5 adds much in the way of on-page optimization. Maybe the new section tags will have a benefit but this article wasn't about those tags.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/googlebot-executes-jav...
I get a nice "Missing Plug-in" in the middle of the page !
As a result, I'm now working on using Flash to play the video in all cases except when Flash does not exist, because this is just not working out for me. Maybe I'm just not doing it right, but it beats me what the issue is.
See the relevant chapter from Mark Pilgrim's Dive into HMTL5, for a start. He uses Modernizr to do the detecting: http://www.modernizr.com/.
http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html
Seriously the first paragraph was enough to know it was garbage, and each word following pounded that home.