I’ve just gone over the site statistics provided by Google Analytics for both my home site (and this blog) iandevlin.com and for my HTML5 site HTML5 Laboratory for a persio of 3 months (from 20th February 2010 to 19th April 2010) and have come up with some interesting facts.
As with most web developers, the usage of PNGs within Internet Explorer 6 has always caused a headache, and whilst there are many JavaScript fixes out there, one of the best so far is DD_belatedPNG by Drew Diller.
Unlike most of the other IE6 PNG fix scripts out there, this one makes use of Microsoft’s implementation of VML instead of Microsoft’s AlphaImageLoader filter, as PNG images show up correctly in a VML fill element.
I have found this to be the best option out there at the moment for getting PNGs to work within IE6.
However, I recently found an issue with it, that granted, not many people will need to do, but I did and I also found a solution for it.
I just created a new experiment over at html5 laboratory about using the <video></video> element.
As usual there are code snippets and test pages for you to see for yourself. Go take a look, or continue reading for information on an issue playing OGG files with Firefox…