[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 report

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 24 09:49:01 BST 2012


Firefox can play mp3 - it's mp4 where the confusion occurs - and
google have bought (i think) or are making an Open Source mp4 codec
(which is why firefox can't do it).

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/chaucer-audio is an MP3 playing in HTML 5 in firefox.

There is a lot of JS around which goes (in psuedo)

create me a video node
if no
use something else

long tail does it (and is perhaps a better option as it has plugins),
then there is videoJS, or mediaelements (we use mediaelements on
podcasts, but are moving to longtail - which you need to pay for to
have an unbadged version)

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/
>
>
>
> Interesting. Fay pointed out that Firefox won’t play mp3 files, I was
> surprised. So in the Xenith project we will have to consider how to manage
> html5 audio because there is not a common format that works in all browsers.
> WTF.
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp
> Johnathan
> Sent: 23 April 2012 19:39
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 25th - 26th April (was RE: Translation support of
> Wizard)
>
>
>
> I don't know if you have come across this site, but they keep updating their
> assessment of html5 across the various platforms.
>
>
>
> If you haven't seen their report before you may find it useful.
>
>
>
> http://www.longtailvideo.com/
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 23 April 2012 11:38, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Cheers, yes, I’ll let you all know. We need to get the prototype so you guys
> can all hit it and comment as we go along: I’ll get Fay to do that on
> Friday,
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp
> Johnathan
> Sent: 23 April 2012 11:25
>
>
> To: For Xerte technical developers
>
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: 25th - 26th April (was RE: Translation support of
> Wizard)
>
>
>
> Hello Julian,
>
>
>
> Just wanted to wish you well with the Xenith project meetings later this
> week. Thanks for the invite, unfortunately I have other commitments.
>
>
>
> I shall follow the developments with interest, particularly those relating
> to any facilities for the generation of new page types.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 14 April 2012 23:38, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> I'll get back to you, thanks. I'm out at a conference Mon - Weds this week,
> then I have a manic week, but then I will get some time to work on ths
> stuff, and get it released. Thanks for all your work the last few weeks.
>
> We are meetng wth some developers from EDINA here in Nottingham 25th and
> 26th April, to discuss approaches to the Xenith Project. A lot of that
> discussion is relevant here - there is a very open agenda right now. Anyone,
> if you fancy coming along, let me know.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
> [reijnders at tor.nl]
> Sent: 14 April 2012 07:45
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Translation support of Wizard
>
> Julian,
>
> (or any other person that is able to work on the flash code)
>
> I added translation support to the wizard, i.e. I am trying to
> accomplish that.  That will be the final step for this release.
>
> -  We will have the code for a complete translated version of XOT
> - Only the Editor will remain in English, I think that is acceptable for
> now.. I don't have the time to add translation for that at this point.
>
> I've got two issues.
>
> 1. I somehow have to embed a language code t=in a project, to be able to
> set the language correctly when reopening a project. What is the best
> way to do that?
> 2. I can't get the labels of the two check boxes (Advanced and Language)
> changed into a new language string. Could you please have a look at
> attached .fla what I am doing wrong, cq. missed?
>
> What did I change?
>
> 1. Added some attributes to the language-config.xml file
> 2. Added a language chooser in the Pages menu of the editor
> 3. Pass the 'language code' to the wizard as a third option
> 4. Created  English and Dutch wizard language files
> 5. Used these in attached .fla file
>
> Everything is committed, except attached .fla, because I want to figure
> out what I did wrong with the check boxes, and the translation is not
> complete yet.
>
> NOTE:
> 1. The wizard already had a version of XML.prototype.toObject, but that
> version expects unique XML nodes throughout the file (so no set of
> <item> for a combo box etc). I wanted to keep the look of the xml
> relatively close to what you did for the engine, but I didn't want to go
> over the wizard to change all the code if I changed the toObject that
> interprets the xwd. So I added a second version XML.prototype.toArrObject.
> 2. Most of the work is done in a function called setTranslation (line
> 2533) that is called after the language file has successfully been read
> in (in function  init)
>
> Tom
>
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