iantomkins.com » video http://iantomkins.com Just my thoughts Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:13:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Video for every browser http://iantomkins.com/2009/07/video-every-browser/ http://iantomkins.com/2009/07/video-every-browser/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:01:08 +0000 Ian http://iantomkins.com/?p=99 The latest browser releases from most major players (except Microsoft of course) now support the new HTML 5 video tag, including Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3&4 which means that video just works without requiring a plugin. Of course not everyone is running these browsers (yet) so what is required is a neat way of using these new features where possible and yet gracefully fall back to using Flash, Quicktime or Windows Media in the event the features are not available.

Ideally of course you want all this to happen without browser sniffing or other such nastiness that will just store up problems for the future. Well the good news is that all this is possible using HTML without any Javascript. How? Check out Kroc Camen’s Video For Everybody page for all the gory details.


Here is an example using the source code from camendesign.

Download Video: High Quality “MP4” | Low Quality “OGG”

]]> http://iantomkins.com/2009/07/video-every-browser/feed/ 0 Only partially present? http://iantomkins.com/2009/04/only-partially-present/ http://iantomkins.com/2009/04/only-partially-present/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:47:57 +0000 Ian http://iantomkins.com/?p=5 Just watched this short TED Talk about peoples use of mobile technology and it reminded me how much I find that tech has a peculiar ability to simultaneously isolate us from each other whilst enabling us to be more connected. There are some great examples of this phenomena in the talk.

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