Yesterday, Apple released an update to the Safari browser, version 4.0.3 that included stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag. I've downloaded and installed the update and do see a difference when viewing sites that use the HTML 5 video tag. In the past, Safari would often crash or hang for me but all seems good now. Anyone else notice a difference?
yup, still completely broken so far as i can tell. i'm not sure if i've misunderstood the html5 spec, but why is safari insisting on downloading every audio and video file upon page load?
chrome3(beta) does it too (so i'm assuming it's a webkit thing?). it makes real word usage impossible. take a look at this page in safari:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/playground/html5multimedia.php
both the audio and the video start downloading from the off. and once the video is fully downloaded the poster image vanishes never to be seen again. resetting safari or clearing the cache doesn't appear to remove the downloads either.
things get worse when you have several videos on a page. safari locks up while it figures out if it can play the specified files (presumably ignoring the mimetype attribute). on a page with 10 large videos, the browser freezes for over a minute while it works everything out, and in the meantime bandwidth keeps getting consumed.
i must be missing something, because at the moment html5 is silly.
Posted by: sidepodcast | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 02:06 PM
hope safari will have a proxy setting for the browser, like other browsers
Posted by: xcalib | Tuesday, September 01, 2009 at 11:47 AM