[backstage] data.gov.uk - about time?

2010-01-21 Thread Ian Forrester
http://www.data.gov.uk/ I can certainly say backstage had a hand in making this happen. Cheers, Secret[] Private[x] Public[] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ - Sent via the

[backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Tim Dobson
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10438578-248.html http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html http://www.youtube.com/html5 The pressure's on! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Browser native games that use real-world data was Re: [backstage] data.gov.uk - about time?

2010-01-21 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
Browser native games that use real-world data** Strangely just in the process of writing to you and Jonathan Hassell... Has the BBC any product or plans to create online games or visualisations that use data.gov.uk data or other real-world data**? if they are not Flash based, that would be

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Barry Carlyon
This has been around for a while. Albeit in beta. Just waiting for browsers to catch up... On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10438578-248.html

RE: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Ian Forrester
Yep I was going to say Tim you've been too busy with your head in Slashdot. http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/ also - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rad/2009/08/html5.html Secret[] Private[x] Public[] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st

RE: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Brendan Quinn
This is still the coolest HTML5 video demo I have seen, even though it was made a couple of years ago... it works in FF 3.5+, and I think Chrome and Safari now: http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/DynamicContentInjection/play.xh tml It does live featrue detection of the video stream using

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Tim Dobson
Brendan Quinn wrote: This is still the coolest HTML5 video demo I have seen, even though it was made a couple of years ago... it works in FF 3.5+, and I think Chrome and Safari now: http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/DynamicContentInjection/play.xhtml That is pretty awesome.

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Barry Carlyon
If people are working to do away with flash. Surely like gordon we are going to get decent video on the iPhone without flash? On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote: Brendan Quinn wrote: This is still the coolest HTML5 video demo I have seen, even though it was

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Anthony McKale
Looks like I'm going to have to get a new flash blocker... On 21/01/2010 12:37, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote: Brendan Quinn wrote: This is still the coolest HTML5 video demo I have seen, even though it was made a couple of years ago... it works in FF 3.5+, and I think Chrome and

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/DynamicContentInjection/play.xhtml didn't work for me in Safari, http://my.opera.com/MacDev_ed/blog/2007/11/21/svg-at-the-movies-take-two is an Opera version, also from a few years ago, rotating, zooming video etc... iirc both URLs rely on SVG for the

RE: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Brendan Quinn
The second one obviously depends on SVG (the name is a bit of a giveaway :-) but from looking at the source of the mozilla demo, the only SVG is the rendering of the circle and triangle to make the play button. Shame that it didn't work in Safari... I suppose one thing Flash has in its favour is

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Barry Carlyon
Have they actually finished writing the HTML5 Spec yet? On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Brendan Quinn brendan.qu...@bbc.co.ukwrote: The second one obviously depends on SVG (the name is a bit of a giveaway :-) but from looking at the source of the mozilla demo, the only SVG is the rendering

RE: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Ian Forrester
Nope HTML 5 working is still on going. I like Brendan Quinn's example because it brings a lot of standard technologies together instead of opting for one monolithic stack. I had a recording which I couldn't release of Antoine Quint of Joost talking at Xtech 07 about their standard stack they

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Phil Lewis
I (maybe mistakenly) seem to remeber the original youtube HTML5 test page I saw somewhere supported Firefox 3.5. This youtube page doesn't seem to. Must be that they are using the h.264 codec which I believe Mozilla wouldn't/couldn't put into their browser. - P On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 11:38 +,

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 21 Jan 2010, at 12:37, Tim Dobson wrote: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ (Flash runtime in javascript) seems almost a bit of a let down now having seen that! I love the concept - but wake me up when it's a full implementation of Flash 10. ;-) S - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
yes well Joost + Antoine definitely did use SVG, before they abandoned their plugin and joined flash... they even had a developer-mashup meet I attended... best ~: On 21 Jan 2010, at 15:21, Ian Forrester wrote: http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/speaker/93

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Brian Butterworth
If you use Chrome Beta, you can use this extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kchoimdlcbapmcdnheaahjcdpdjdpfco 2010/1/21 Stephen Jolly st...@jollys.org On 21 Jan 2010, at 12:37, Tim Dobson wrote: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ (Flash runtime in javascript) seems

RE: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

2010-01-21 Thread Ian Forrester
Talking of SVG = http://xml.coverpages.org/newsletter/news2010-01-06.html#cite4 Microsoft joins the SVG WG Secret[] Private[x] Public[] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ