Flash or Quicktime/Html5 but not both?

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I sure could you some advice. I'm in the process of uploading my first business website (coffee tables I've designed) and I've got a quicktime movie that plays on almost every page. The site looks and plays fine on a mac with firefox but on a pc with IE there's some display problems.

I've hired a Tech Person to make it work on a PC, and he's given two choices on how he could do the code for the PC, but I wonder if there's someone here that could give me some feedback about these two choices, is one better than the other or more practical.

This is what the Tech Person wrote to me:
Flashplayer is a browser plugin. can be installed on any OS/browser and most android devices, most people have it pre installed. Apple doesnot support it on ipad or iphone. HTML5 is still in beta, Latest browsers support it so does iphone and ipad. However you need 3 versions of the same file to ensure video plays on most devices. to put it simply. Use flash: Plays on ALL PC and MAC, we can have a youtube like playlist after the movie is finished. will be easy to update too. but no ipad/iphone support. Use html5: Will also play on ipad etc, but no in movie choices like 'click the flag'. and will need 3 version of the same video. Also html5 is buggy, It's not even fully released yet.
you have two choices. Flash: ensure video play on ALL PC and MAC PCS. sacrifice ipad/iphone. Html5: Video plays on ALL LATEST Browsers (not old, latest) plus ipad. but Expect problems, html5 is not released yet. And no Clicks inside the movie, like 'click on the flag' etc. Plus 3 version of the same movie file. My two centS. Go with Flash.

Sure would appreciate some help in understanding are these the correct choices and which is the most practical.

Thanks for the help,
Bob
#flash #quicktime or html5
  • Profile picture of the author jawanda
    He's correct about the choices, but pessimistic in his view of what you should do ... which is option three, Flash + HTML5, but do it the easy way: upload your video to Youtube and use their iframe embed code, which will automatically detect and serve the correct format.

    Or, host the flash/html5 videos yourself and use javascript to decide which version to play. Yes, you'll need a few copies of the file, but isn't it worth it to make sure that as close to 100% of users as possible will see your content correctly?
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