[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version

Wed Jul 4 10:20:16 BST 2012

JW Player just needs a URL to work, so could imagine having a library of
"players" to which you just send a URL to and it does the rest.

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

> I looked at different video players a while ago but was sure we’d have to
> pay for JW Player so thought it would be problematic to include in Toolkits
> – just looked again and realised there is an open source version I
> overlooked.  At the moment I am using the video/audio tags and had made a
> custom control bar for it so it looked more consistent across browsers.
> The controls are a bit temperamental though so I needed to do some more
> work on this. Will try out JW Player properly now as this could be a much
> simpler (and better) option.****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 03 July 2012 14:07
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
> ** **
>
> JW Player would probably be the prime candidate, yes. Sally has been using
> it, having reviewed pretty much everything else out there, and it does one
> very good thing in that we can encode to H.264 and it will play it natively
> if the browser supports, else failover to the JW Flash player to play it if
> not. Sally, again, after a lot of research reports that that combination
> covers ‘enough’ of the situations… and it will also cope with the existing
> flv content, and the failover will work for mp3 too.****
>
> ** **
>
> I’d been perplexed about how we could handle just native html5 without
> having to have the user upload lots of different formats, which didn’t seem
> ideal.****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 03 July 2012 10:20
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
> ** **
>
> For the GW project at Oxford we used longtail - mostly because you can add
> google analytics events trackers (and it has JS which does the whole HTML 5
> thing for you)****
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:****
>
> Not sure, Fay will have better idea: she’ll be in tomorrow, I think up
> till now it’s been the native html tags,****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 03 July 2012 10:18****
>
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
>  ****
>
> Have you chosen a video player? Or are people bolting their own ones in?**
> **
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:****
>
> Aiming at <audio> and <video> but we’re going to have to fall back to
> flash on some browsers.****
>
>  ****
>
> Canvas where it’s relevant to templates, then why not? Likewise SVG, but
> they don’t need to figure in the interface and core stuff.****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 03 July 2012 10:13****
>
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
>  ****
>
> Random question****
>
>  ****
>
> by HTML 5 are we meaning HTML (plus video and audio)****
>
>  ****
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> or are we doing the whole Canvas / SVG craziness as well?****
>
>  ****
>
> If we do SVG then a lot of stuff becomes kinda fun.......****
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:****
>
> Bear in mind we’ll be showing the Xenith stuff at ALT-C in September.****
>
>  ****
>
> BTW, I am getting a lot of ad-hoc ‘when will Xerte do HTML5’ queries,
> people are really chomping at the bit for his,****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* 03 July 2012 09:04
> *To:* 'For Xerte technical developers'
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
>  ****
>
> likewise Nottingham and 2 days fine with me but good to confirm the dates
> asap.****
>
>  ****
>
> Suffice to say it's important to get the objectives and target audience
> right. My hunch is the day or perhaps half-day public session might be
> better on a completely separate date with some time between. e.g. either
> before as Thomas suggests or possibly after so that there's time for
> changes before the public session.****
>
>  ****
>
> Ron****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Thomas Rochford
> *Sent:* 02 July 2012 23:57
> *To:* 'For Xerte technical developers'
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
>  ****
>
> Nottingham is fine with me and some weekday time between September 17thand October 19
> th sounds ideal.****
>
>  ****
>
> One thought ….****
>
>  ****
>
> It may be better to hold the ‘public’ session at the start rather than at
> the end, because that will give the development team a chance to reflect on
> any issues that have been raised by the stakeholders. Presumably too we can
> ‘broadcast’ it, possibly using the new Janet VideoConferencing application,
> Visimeet from http://www.IOCOM.com , which is VERY good. ****
>
>  ****
>
> Kindest Regards,****
>
> Thomas****
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 02 July 2012 16:27
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
>  ****
>
> OK. The Xenith project is funded until Oct 19th. I can see good reasons
> to do this before the time runs out, because we’d be able to count this as
> part of the project (which is likely to have some budget left, although not
> much, before you get all excited) and point to all the good outcomes that
> result from our meeting(!); similarly I can see good reasons to wait until
> afterwards. What do you guys think? If we did it before Oct 19th, it
> would have to be sometime after September 17th .****
>
>  ****
>
> Also, what about a venue? Happy to host it here again. Two days felt about
> the right length of time last time, ****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp
> Johnathan
> *Sent:* 02 July 2012 16:20
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
>  ****
>
> I have no dates yet. ****
>
>  ****
>
> My wife cannot fly for medical reasons at present, so we are tending to
> wait in the hope that things will clear up for her soon (its been six
> months so far but you never know your luck).****
>
>  ****
>
> We had planned to get away some time in early September, but if you
> publish dates before we book anything then I will work around them, so that
> I can join you all.****
>
>  ****
>
> Kind regards****
>
>  ****
>
> Johnathan****
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> On 2 July 2012 16:13, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:****
>
> When are your hols?****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Kemp Johnathan
> *Sent:* 02 July 2012 16:13****
>
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML 5 version****
>
>  ****
>
> I would be interested in attending as well, if I am not on holiday at the
> time.****
>
>  ****
>
> Tom's idea of a post project review is a good one, it might also be useful
> to consider any particular aspects of the development project that worked
> particularly well and that we might want to build on as well as any
> possible areas for improvement.****
>
>  ****
>
> With respect to future developments I am particularly interested in how
> html5 and a page development environment are brought together.****
>
>  ****
>
> Kind regards****
>
>  ****
>
> Johnathan****
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>
> On 2 July 2012 13:56, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:****
>
> If our schedule permits, we'll be there too. I like having vacations...
>
> Would be good to do a (short) postmortem of the things we
> accomplished/didn't accomplish after the meeting of last year as well....
>
> :-)
>
> Tom and Inge
>
> Op 2-7-2012 14:16, Pat Lockley schreef:****
>
>  ****
>
> Me and the kitten are disappointed
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> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>
> wrote:****
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> My only request - no keynotes.****
>
> Not even yours?****
>
> Especially.
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