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The solution for now is to produce your videos in multiple formats. Table 1. Browser support by video format Browser MP4 WebM Ogg Internet Explorer 9 Yes No No Firefox 4.0 No Yes Yes Google Chrome 6 Yes Yes Yes Apple Safari 5 Yes No No Opera 10.6 No Yes Yes Note: For the latest compatibility information, always check the CanIUse website.

A more robust way to create the fallback is to use a JavaScript utility like Modernizr to evaluate the browser's capabilities and then dynamically write the video and source tags or embed the Flash video player using SWFObject.

Tip 3: The source tag should always include the "type" attribute with the correct MIME type value. You may need to add an .htaccess file to your server to define the MIME types as well. Check out the Video for everybody article for more tips on MIME types.

Once more, the iPhone recognises type="tel", only this time it goes one step further and completely changes the keyboard to the standard phone keyboard, as shown on the left in Figure 6. In addition to the iPhone, some Android devices (such as HTC Desire, shown on the right in Figure 6) also display a numeric keyboard for type="tel". That’s pretty handy, don’t you think? Nice, big keys for entering a phone number help you to get that big, nasty form completed quickly.

In contrast to Opera’s implementation, the iPhone (Figure 8) and some Android devices (such as HTC Desire, shown on the right in Figure 6-13) simply render the field as a standard text box but optimize the keyboard for easy input.