Video, how has it changed and what you can do with it now
Since I last looked at video (it's been a few years), there are new and amazing things that have happened in the field and I'm just amazed at the kind of stuff that you can do. This essay is the beginning of my exploration into the updated world of web video. In a separate essay I will explore web video's cousin, WebRTC and describe there what the differences are. ## Video is a first class web citizen The humble video tag has come a long way since I last looked at it. It still requires a lot of extra work to make it work everywhere. Look at the video below: It should work just as good whether your browser support any of the HTML5 video formats or if you must fall back to the Flash plugin. **Download video:** [MP4 format](http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4) | [Ogg format](http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.ogv) | [WebM format](http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.webm) Note in the example below how we code defensively and provide 3 different versions of the video to work around the lack of a common format supported by all browsers with fallback only necessary for browsers that do not support the `