mDialog's New QT-based Embedded Video Player
November 28th, 2008
mDialog (a Hi-Def Video Content Delivery Platform that I do development for) just introduced their brand spanking new embedded video player that I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity of helping them build. Although you may be deceived, this player is NOT FLASH based. It uses fancy technologies including (but not limited to) Javascript, transparent overlays, Browser-specific CSS, CSS3, HTML5 and last but not least, Apple's Quicktime.
Go ahead, try it out :) ...
One huge benefit to using this embed over other flash based ones is the exposure to iPhone users. Flash based embeds have a big problem on the iPhone but Quicktime obviously doesn't so mDialog's embed works really well on the iPhone.
Since Safari is the only major browser at this point in time to support CSS3 (somewhat), this player is best viewed in Safari.