Vimeo has a new feature in our HTML5 player thanks to Apple. Now you can now watch Vimeo videos on your AppleTV! Just play any video on your iPad or iPhone running iOS 4.3 and tap on the AirPlay button to send the video to your AppleTV.
Secondly, Vimeo made a small improvement in Flash player by adding a timecode hint when you mouse over the play bar. Now you should be able to jump to exact times in the video with more accuracy. We’ll be adding it to the HTML5 player shortly.
For now the HTML5 player is still limited to Safari and Chrome only. They are working on bringing it to IE9 and Firefox 4, but unfortunately both browsers present significant challenges at the moment. For example, IE9′s HTML5 support is not yet up to snuff compared to other browsers, and Firefox video support is WebM only. We hope to support WebM in the future, but are still waiting for a number of things to improve before we can adopt it fully.
PS- For all our fellow nerds out there, here are some extra details about our HTML5 player:
- All versions of our HTML5 player (desktop, touch, mobile) now clock in at 28KB or less! (CSS and JS combined)
- We’re now trying to use feature detection as much as we can, rather than user agent detection, which means the player will automatically work where it can as browsers evolve.
- We have a much more dynamic layout, meaning your videos look great no matter the size of the embed.
