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		duskwuff on Jan 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Follow-up: Mozilla's stand on H.264 as ActiveX ana... Entirely doable, but <object> doesn't expose the same scripting APIs that <video> does. So, for instance, you will get a playable video in YouTube, but none of the YT buttons will work.

geocar on Jan 25, 2010 [–]

The YT buttons could be made to work because there is an analog for them, for example: document.getElementById('video').controls.pause(); does what you would expect.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd563945(VS.85).aspx

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