Hello,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Hickson</b> <<a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ian@hixie.ch</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:<br>><br>> Would you be open to hearing suggestions about how to add native video<br>> and video player support?<br><br>Sure. FWIW, there's a lot of interest in browser vendors about introducing
<br>a <video> element or some such (or maybe making browsers natively support<br>video in <object>, or both).<br><br>(What's most needed right now in this area is probably implementation<br>experience.)<br></blockquote>
</div><br>I think there's a set of issues to look at with video and video players on the web. For the most part, these can be looked at and decided upon separately.<br><br>#1: A natively supported video format. (Like the way GIF's, JPEG's, and PNG's are natively supported.)
<br><br>#2: Video players. (This would be embedding some kind of video screen in a webpage... possibly with a play/pause button, stop button, etc.)<br><br>#3: Playlists. (A single video file just won't cut it.)<br><br>
#4:(Static or animated) thumbnails to videos.<br><br>#5: When to pre-fetch and when NOT to pre-fetch videos (and "download" it at the last possible minute).<br><br>
#6: JavaScript API for "playing", etc video.<br><br>#7: Scrubbing though video<br><br>#8: Alternate versions.<br><br>(There's some other things that I'd describe ads more advanced... but I'll save those for now and see how people react to these first.)
<br><br>To make it easier to manage the conversation, I'll post about each of these in a separate e-mail.<br><br><br>See ya<br><br>-- <br> Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.<br><br> charles @ <a href="http://reptile.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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