While working on a recent project I was faced with the task of embedding videos on a web page that would be compatible with the iPhone and iPad. It turns out HTML5 video is still in it’s infancy, but hopefully this article will save developers from the many headaches it provided me.
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I spend a lot of time dealing with cross browser compatibility and it’s not fun (I’m looking at you Internet Explorer). But over the years I’ve developed a few habits that make the task a little easier and I thought I might as well share these tips with the rest of the world, so here goes nothing.
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So maybe I’m just an idiot and this would be obvious to others, but it completely confused me for a large portion of the night, so I thought I’d share in hopes of helping some other unfortunate soul.

The Problem

I was using a jQuery function to show / hide elements, first on a table row, then when that didn’t work, a table column. The problem is that jQuery’s show method sets an element’s display attribute to “block,” completely ignoring that it should instead be “table-column.” This causes some issues to say the least.
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