I was hoping to be able to report that adding video to a web page with the new <video> tag brought to us by HTML5, would make life a lot easier. Not yet, it ain't!
I have spent a good deal of time trying to resolve a number of issues.
To a certain extent some of the problems, are my own, since I have legacy material in Quicktime .mov format, and I was reluctant to go back and convert. However, a splendid batch process has resolved this for me...
I am not a big Facebook user (sorry!), but I needed to know how to add a Facebook 'Like' badge to my pages. It may seem relatively easy if you go to the Facebook developers section. However, we really like to make all our pages validate and we are using the XHTML 1.0 strict doctype. You can read how I found a way of doing it here.
Adobe has released an embeddable video player that shows HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. It's cross-browser and cross-platform, so it works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don't support Flash.
I went to Manchester Metropolitan University to a day long event hosted by the Department of Information and Communications in conjunction with the BSC in Web Development. The day was organised by Richard Elskins who started teaching web design back in 1996.
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) iFactory, an award-winning web design and development firm, today announced that Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen iFactory's online publishing platform, PubFactory, to develop the relaunched version of the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
