IE9 video tag fallback broken?

HTML & CSS
1

Ok, i thought with IE9 there will be no more stupid IE stuff we have to deal with. They drive me crazy!

If i put a poster to the video tag the fallback stuff is not shown in IE9.
IE9 shows the poster.

Also my flash fallback does not work. I just have a black box with a red cross.
I mean it works in Opera 9, 10.5 10.6, 11, in IE8 and even in the old Firefox 2.
Why the hell does this stupid **** happens in a new html5 browser :headbang:

Will MS ever make a browser where you don’t spend your time to figure how to fix there stuff?

So here is the question: How to fix it :smiley:

2

There are no HTML5 browsers yet. :slight_smile: If you have a link, we could check if there’s something simple that can be changed.

3

I know. But you know what i mean - its allays IE who makes things different and drives developers crazy.

There is not really a need for a site. Just do local:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="de">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>test</title>
</head>
<body>

<video controls poster="my.jpg" width="415" height="332">
  <source src="my.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
  <p>where the hell is my fallback MS?????</p>
</video>

</body>
</html>

and call it in IE9. This little local snippet proves it does not work and its not some server misconfiguration. :mad:

4

I don’t think M$ Explorer supports that mime natively. Anyway, you should probably have the OBJECT as a fallback within the VIDEO element itself.

5

The poster attribute is a fallback in of it self. By displaying it if there is no video data is fully within the spec.
Review the source code of this page: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/test.html

6

Ok, how does that make sence that the poster is a fallback? I mean how can we than show alternativ content.

@logic_earth, i know video4everybody. And i just found out that with that code the flash fallback also does not work in newer Firefox.

So my old code does not work really work. I allways hat a ogv in there and never checked if the flash fallback works in FX. But FX 3.5 and above do not show the flash.

7

Hm, looks like it’s not MS fault.
Looks like i understand it wrong.
I thought if all browsers fall back to flash if they don’t support the codec.
But thats not the case. Browsers who know the video tag and don’t find a video with a codec they can play, don’t fall back to flash.
Just browsers who don’t know the video tag fall back to flash.

So my problem are Safari>5 and IE9 if i don’t wan’t to put a H.264 in there.
They don’t fall back do flash :mad:

@MS, sorry for my fault. But anyway i’m a Microsoft fan and own 3 XP, 2 Vista, 2 Win7 licenses, have a WHS, a Xbox, a Xbox 360 and a HTC Universal and HTC HD2.
So i really like you :slight_smile:

8

As you found out yourself, IE9 follows the spec when it doesn’t show the fallback. :slight_smile:

If you want it to show the fallback, you need to do it with script yourself. You could put onerror=“” on the last <source> element to detect that no provided codec was supported, and replace the <video> element with its children (excluding the <source>s) in the DOM.