Links and resources for the web 2.0 developer.
SublimeVideo is a javascript library you can use to serve HTML5 video to capable browsers while still retaining compatibility with older browsers, gracefully degrading to using a flash–based player. In many ways, it is similar to html5media, another library we featured a few weeks ago.
Plupload is an open–source tool that allows you to provide uploading functionality for your website. So what makes it special? It utilizes HTML5, Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads—all this transparently and without the developer’s intervention. This project is from the [...]
html5media is a javascript utility that you can simply call in your page’s header and use the generic HTML5 <video> tag to display videos, without having to worry if your reader’s browser support HTML5 and the <video> tag. Usage is very simple. Place this code in the <head> section: <script src=”http://html5media.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/html5media.min.js”></script> After that, embedded movies [...]
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Online video without the bloat — yes, HTML5 is almost here. The latest Firefox 3.5 pre–release supports the new <video> tag in HTML5 and a demo proves it, courtesy of Dailymotion. Is this going to be the downfall of Flash? I’m tired of it consuming too much CPU scycles anyway. Comments Off