I asked whatwg for ideas on how to make this just work for iPhone users. The answer is sort of horrible. Any iPhone devs in the house?
- d. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ralph Giles <[email protected]> Date: 2009/7/9 Subject: Re: [whatwg] Serving up Theora <video> in the real world To: David Gerard <[email protected]> Cc: WHATWG Proposals <[email protected]> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone got ideas on the iPhone problem? I think this is off topic, and I am not an iPhone developer, but: Assuming the app store terms allow video players, it should be possible to distribute some sort of dedicated player application, free or otherwise. I believe the fee for a cert to sign applications is currently $100/year. However, the iPhone doesn't have a shared filesystem, or helper-applications in the normal sense, At least not as far as I can tell. The work-around I'm aware of is for site authors to check if you're running on the iPhone in javascript, and rewrite the video elements to normal anchors with a custom schema, e.g. <a href="oggplayer://example.com/file.ogv">Click here to watch in Ogg Player</a>. Then, if the user has installed the Ogg Player app, which registers itself has handling the 'oggplayer' schama, Safari will pass the custom uri to it, and it can download/stream/whathaveyou. -r _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
