Wicked cool. Pardon the bad pun, but this is some outside the box thinking. :)
The basic concept here (in case people don't get what's so cool about it), is pulling what were once proprietary features of video formats like Flash and Quicktime and indeed military grade technology out of the video and exposing them in HTML. This demo appears to be showing specificaly on feature which is motion tracking of the contents of a video. Once this feature is accessible via HTML javascript and other web browser native languages can be used to control and work with it. This is just one example on a huge new frontier that goes well beyond being able to simply play/ pause control of videos. -Mike On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@gmail.com> wrote: > I remember in 2004 when some of us first started videoblogging, we had > to jump through a lot of hoops trying to figure out how to get video > on the page easily. This challenge was really the impetus for starting > this group. That's all we talked about the first year. > > Then, embedded Flash players came along and made it dead simple to > post/share videos. > > But check out this mother fucking shit: > http://standblog.org/blog/post/2009/04/15/Making-video-a-first-class-citizen-of-the-Web > Ive been talking a lot about the new -video- tag in HTML 5 that's in > Firefox 3.5. Not only does it use open web standards which is really > important as we develop the language of web video, it also enables > some very COOL possibilities for interacting with a video on a page > (without any licensing restrictions). > > For those of us who like to hack and play around, now is the time to > get energized. There are infinite possibilities with the -video- and > -canvas- tags in HTML 5. The developers have barely even scratched the > surface...and I imagine that it's going to take the video creators and > storytellers here to start making the kick ass examples that really > bring out the possibilities. > > So forget all the ranting and raving about Youtube. Papa's got a brand new > bag. > http://standblog.org/blog/post/2009/04/15/Making-video-a-first-class-citizen-of-the-Web > Watch the screencast to get an idea of what I'm talking about. > > This new Firefox will be officially released the the Open Video > Conference this June in NYC: > http://openvideoconference.org/2009/03/mozilla-to-present-firefox-35-at-open-video/ > Ill be there and would be great to meet you guys there as well. > > Jay > > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
