Hi Dennis, >> 2). >> http://youtube-eng.blogspot.nl/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html
Very nice :-) > I infer that you need a relatively current browser. Yes, and those video codec libraries are not small at all. So even if you would add just enough HTML5 to a DOS browser to display youtube, it would add a lot of complexity... > The biggest use case for Flash has been video, which historically > has been presented on the web as SWF objects. You can also make a fancy GUI for your website in Flash. I remember websites with keen designers which would show one big box of Flash and if you had no Flash, you basically saw nothing of the page. Luckily this fashion has gone away and Flash indeed is mostly for video (and animated ads?) today. One of the reasons for this is that you can do a lot with Javascript today. There are many nice libraries written in Javascript that help you to make a website with a nice GUI. There are even cross-compilers which compile for example C code into Javascript. Probably into a small virtual machine written in Javascript plus bytecode for that ;-) So an interesting question is: Which DOS browsers have any Javascript support? With CSS? Enough to display animated menus or enough to process those Javascript libraries? Also, I remember somebody in BTTR mentioning a tool which analyzes youtube HTML to find the direct URL of the video to be played. That sounds like a reasonable way to watch youtube video in DOS on occasion. Details? Instructions? I remember that when I use too many script, ad and gimmick blockers on Linux, using a download helper plugin to find the video URL and watching that in VLC is sometimes faster than having to unblock bells & whistles in my browser ;-) Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
