Y'know how sometimes you post your message and then wake up in the wee hours and fret that maybe you were wrong and ought to retract part of a statement ? Of course you do....
I got up this morning and Googled "HTML5 features"
I found a wonderful article called "28 HTML5 features, tips and techniques" and now I feel completely justified in every rotten thing I hinted at earlier.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/25-html5-features-tips-and-techniques-you-must-know/
It begins quite soon into the article
Tip 2 for example - wraping the title of an image inside yet another (useless) set of terms ..... duh !
Tip 10 wrap your <divs> inside more terms ... like Tip 2
Tip 11 form features - I am not all sour grapes, these features for tablet users are a good idea....
Tip 17 Video support
Ah, Robert this is just for you, the video construct and YouTube support
1.<video controls preload>
2. <source src="cohagenPhoneCall.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs='vorbis, theora'" />
3. <source src="cohagenPhoneCall.mp4" type="video/mp4; 'codecs='avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2'" />
4. <p> Your browser is old. <a href="cohagenPhoneCall.mp4">Download this video instead.</a> </p>
5.</video>
There are a few things worth noting here.
1.We aren’t technically required to set the type attribute; however, if we don’t, the browser has to figure out the type itself. Save some bandwidth, and declare it yourself.
2.Not all browsers understand HTML5 video. Below the source elements, we can either offer a download link, or embed a Flash version of the video instead. It’s up to you.
3.The controls and preload attributes will be discussed in the next two tips.
Hmmm, a bit ugly the way it says your browser is a piece of old shit, download the video as a file. Could it not automatically offer 20th century handling of the video embedded ? Its supposed to be smarter than HTML
So, HTML5 seems to offer the ability to show video on the page - no need Robert, to use your other NLE because this is HTML5 on the webpage not in the video editor. And it seems to imply you know which codec to specify. I wonder if Mr Balmer put them on your Windows 8 distribution disk....
The rest of the tips are not of any importance in this forum so I will stop now. I suggest that if you want your personal webpage to run on a tablet with HTML5 the code shown above will be spiffy and work perfectly across all versions of Win,Android and iPad regardless of vendor and that only leaves the rest of the mac and windows world. You will still need to determine their browser type and supply code to show the video, or bluntly offer them the file to download as in the example above,
Actually the plan is that there will be no desktop pcs around in 5 years and we will all be carrying personal pocket wonders around. Thats when the kiddie programmers will cease to care about supporting your browser and you probably wont even be offered the choice to download. You will have become marginalised off the page (margin geddit ?)
Whats that ? you live in the backwoods and have Internet Explorer 6 on an XP machine ?
Shame on you for not joining the wireless society.
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