And I did add the controls with a script in the new version, the javascript looks for <div id=”videoControls”></div> and inserts the appropriate code within that div. Version 1.2 should be finished up and posted by the end of the week, so watch for that. I’m not planning on this player being completely usable and distribution worthy until version 2, but it does help to get some extra eyes on the code and opinions along the way.

The next version is also working with FireFox.

You should probably make your controls keyboard accessible — you can do this by adding tabindex=”0″ on the buttons, and listening for keydown events or so.

You should maybe also add the controls with script or at least make sure they’re hidden when script is disabled so that the user can use the browser’s controls instead.

The controls don’t seem to work fully in Opera; the play button doesn’t turn into a pause button, and the controls aren’t hidden when moving away the mouse. I could also drag the seek knob outside the seekbar. In the error console I see WRONG_ARGUMENTS_ERR being raised for buffered.end(). The spec requires an argument there. You should probably use buffered.end(bufferend.length-1), but you need to check that length is greater than 0 first, since in Opera it’s always 0 currently, and end(-1) will throw INDEX_SIZE_ERR.

As for listeners, JavaScript can handle almost anything that Flash can, and more reliably so. The IE crowd will have to stick with flash for now since who knows when the video tag will be implemented in their browser.

I’ve been building Flash based media players for years as part of my job, but lately I have learned to hate Flash based media on the web thanks to its shoddy memory handling (read: leaking). I’m frankly quite sick of it. This is refreshing to see, the future of web media is plug in free. I’m tempted to reauthor all my video content for my site to use a HTML5 player.

However, the Flash environment allows easy fullscreen modes, data loading/preloading, event listening/triggering etc. I’d like to see what you can do to address those parameters as that would be killer once solved. I hate not being able to view most web video on my iPhone too, I cant wait for everyone to catch up

Good work sir!!