Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player

Adobe has released an embeddable video player that plays HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. With the proper file formats in place, Adobe's new player will play native web video in all the newest browsers, and will switch to Flash playback mode for all your poor visitors stuck with IE6 or something equally stone-aged. The new HTML5 video player is incorporated into the workflow of Dreamweaver Creative Suite 5, so if you're already using Adobe's tools to build your site, you can drop in a player using Dreamweaver's "Customize Widget" function. To develop its video player widget, Adobe used open source code from Kaltura, repurposing a popular library that's found at the heart of several HTML5 video players.