Broadway.js is an open-source library that decodes H.264 in JavaScript by taking advantage of the newer faster JavaScript engines that are built into the latest browsers. This means that in theory a developer can add H.264 playback capability to any modern browser. See also JSMad for MP3 playback and ALAC.js for lossless playback.
HTML5 has entered the online video market, which is both exciting and challenging for developers in the industry. With both the HTML5 specification and the various browser implementations in constant flux, we at LongTail Video spend a signficant amount of time understanding the limitations of the technology, testing playback across various browsers and devices, and optimizing our own products for HTML5 playback.
A background image that fits the entire web page can be more challenging. I’ve learned that a simple graphic with a strong diagonal feel, sized to fit 100% of the page’s height and width, can be a fun and effective background graphic that seems to be a custom fit to the web page size
I've been doing some restructuring of my personal sites and the underlying servers in the past couple of weeks - trying out some new tricks to get similar results with fewer (cheaper) resources, and at the same time learn about some modern web architecture at all levels of the stack.
I wrote a post that included videos just to test out the "responsive" scaling stuff built into the Omega theme on my Drupal 7 site.
Looks like I've had a 2-month blogging hiatus... oops! I normally don't go this long with something to write about. Here is something so cool I couldn't avoid posting it:
The fine folks up in Canada (at least I assume that's where this guy is) have done it again! Video via hacks.mozilla.org
At the beginning of the year, I bought an ebook in PDF format, and wrote a post about my adventures trying to get the layout to STAY THE SAME on my Mac. Today I bought a book in ePUB, by the subject of my most recent post, Jeremy Keith. The book is published by one of my favorite websites, A List Apart, and it's their first venture into publishing.