[whatwg] Suddenly, ~40% of IE users get HTML5 Theora with no effort

[David Gerard]

On 7 February 2010 02:12, Kornel Lesinski <kornel at geekhood.net> wrote:

> There's also Cortado Theora player which can work for those who don't have
> Silverlight, but have Java.
> I've tested it - it's good enough for small videos (too slow for HD
> unfortunately) and can be used to implement basic <video> interface.


Yeah, Wikimedia uses it for people without HTML5 Theora. I've always
found the Java startup time horrible and was very happy when Firefox
3.5 made this stuff Just Work.


- d.