Full screen with embed

I’m working on another website. The client is using html5 and the video tag. The problem is that IE doesn’t have any support for it, so i used jquery to get the height and width of the document and set that to the height and width in the embed tag. The width works, but the height doesn’t. Even though its set to 4000 something pixels, it only extends about a quarter of the page.

I don’t know if that’s because the video isn’t loading or if the embed tag simply can’t go full screen without the user doing it manually.

Basically, the video is supposed to act as a background, in place of an image and i have a feeling the embed tag can’t do that.

Is this because you’re using IE 8? I think they added support for the video tag in IE 9+.

im using ie 9 or 10. i have win7. it might have been because ie doesnt support the webm or ogv formats.

Post the HTML, I’ll play with it…

This will take the guess work out what a browser can or can not do in HTML5. http://caniuse.com/

Nice site, thanks for sharing.

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