A native video is presented in HTML5 with the <video>
element (tag). Accomplishing that is our mission in this chapter, and shortly, we will explore tools available in Dreamweaver CS5.5 for embedding video using this tag.
Before we do that, let's identify the two big challenges to developers in providing native videos. One is that there is not one but three native video formats. The second challenge is that the older versions of Internet Explorer (8 and earlier) do not support the HTML5 <video>
element.
The three widely supported native video formats are: MP4 (h.264), supported by Safari; Theora OGG, an open source video format supported by Mozilla Firefox; and WebM, supported by Google Chrome, Opera, and reportedly soon in Firefox.
Here is a more detailed breakdown of which browsers currently support which video formats: