Most "universal" type of video file?

[Hacker Scot]

On May 13, 2008, at 11:40 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:

> Hands up who uses Safari?


Well, not more than 2.2% of the internet, that's for sure.

But this is a video format thread, not a favorite browser thread.

I'm not trying to trash on Safari - I'd use it too for its speed and  
elegance and fantastic CSS support if it just had a  plugin ecosystem  
like FireFox and if its JavaScript/Ajax support didn't suck. I'm a Mac- 
based web developer -- of course I'm partial to Safari - but it  
doesn't measure up to FF where it counts, so I can't come up with a  
compelling reason to use it.

But that's not the point. The point is that you're saying "Flash  
crashes Safari" as if that's a good reason for the OP not to  
distribute his video in Flash format. And I'm saying "It doesn't crash  
other browsers and Safari is a tiny slice of the market so I wouldn't  
worry about it."   A "hands up" poll about browser choices on this  
list isn't relevant to the OP's question about most painless video  
format for the world at large. The answer to that question is Flash,  
regardless who here likes Safari.

./s


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