HTML 5 is looking more and more like the future for online video

This just knocked my socks off.

Have a look at the live video here. It was created in HTML 5 by Sean Christmann over at Craftymind. Sean admits that it takes a bit of “hackish code” to get it to work, but to me it demonstrates the potential of HTML 5 which seems to be gaining more and more ground especially in the wake of the revelation that the iPad does not support Adobe Flash. Sean admits that not all browser render the code well.

Lastly, I’m learning very quickly that not all browsers are created equal when it comes to performance, it’s a crapshoot when it comes to heavy video+image manipulation. Safari and Chrome work well with h.264, Firefox slogs along with Ogg Theora, and Opera is somewhere in the middle.

But, this is a step in a very exciting direction.

Big muchos gracias to Daring Fireball where I first learned about Mr. Christmann’s demo.

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