IE 9 HTML5 Video Player Control & Compatibility

Socusoft HTML5 Video Player is IE 9 compatible. To insert the generated HTML5 video player into your website for IE 9 display. You can follow the steps illustrated in this guide.

If you find the HTML5 player controls work normally on all browsers but IE 9, such as the full screen display does not open or the play/pause control not work. Try to add this code into the head section of your web page: <meta http-equiv=’X-UA-Compatible’ content=’IE=9′ />

This code tells Internet Explorer to display a webpage in IE9 mode. It must be placed in the page’s head section, before all other elements, except for the title element and other meta elements. For the HTML5 embed code/JavaScript, you can put all of them in the body section. However this http-equiv attribute only works when you put it in the head section.

Another useful tip when manipulating the HTML5 video player is that you can customize the video player style to suit your web page. HTML5 Video Player is a template based video player. Any template you choose will have a css style file generated in the output folder, you can customize it with a website editor, such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Expression Web.