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**vinnywright** · Aug 21, 2014, 07:30 PM

Originally posted by Tom_ZeCat View Post

Does HTML 5 have a built-in video capability?

yes

this

<html>
<head>
<center>
<title>A test of HTML5</title>
<meta content="">
<style></style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="green">
<h1>A test of HTML5</h1>

<h3>so here is my first webm vid,just for a test

</h3>

<video controls="controls" autoplay="autoplay">
<source src="desktop2.webm" type="video/webm" />
</video>
</body>
</html>

in a DIR with the .webm video

and I think .avi and mp4 is supported as well but not all browsers support all formats ,,,,,,or I think that is what I remember

the line

<p>a html5 video test <a href=html5test>html5 test</a>.</p>

in my main index.html led to it and it worked well

<html>
<head>
<center>
<title>Vinny's $4IT</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<meta content="">
<style></style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="green">
<h1>Vinny's $4IT</h1>

<h3>My first web page with links to MY stuff
for my personal access where ever I happen to be

</h3>

</center>
<left>
<p>my music <a href=Music%201>music</a>.</p>
<p>my e-books <a href=Calibre%20Library>e-books</a>.</p>
<p>a html5 video test <a href=html5test>html5 test</a>.</p>
<p>some picks <a href=picks>picks</a>.</p>
<center>
<img src="ognoway_e0.gif" width="296" height="165">
</body>
</html>

extremely basick page ,,,,,,but it worked just fine for my needs

PM me if you want it up for some such period of time so you can see .

VINNY

**SteveRiley** · Aug 22, 2014, 12:40 AM

Originally posted by jlittle View Post

Isn't that a huge security risk being imposed on the participants in the webinar?
More than one site I have worked at would have had conniptions if I attempted such a thing. The forms to be filled in, the budget approval required to even assess the executable...

WebEx and GoToMeeting require Java. If the JRE is on your system, then it will download and execute the Java applet in the context of your user account.

**Goeroeboeroe** · Aug 22, 2014, 04:01 AM

With the <video> tag in html5 you can add video to your site. Since vendors (read: Apple and Microsoft) couldn't agree about one supported format, you need two formats. With webm and mp4 every modern browser, even mobile browsers, can play video without a plug-in.
If you use JavaScript, you can completely change the behavior and look of your players. Without JavaScript the videoplayer built in the browser works well, but with JavaScript you can add much more controls than flash ever had.

**Spadge** · Aug 24, 2014, 05:21 AM

If they are running some kind of Silverlight thing, then you probably need to be using Windows or OSX though. Probably.

**SteveRiley** · Aug 24, 2014, 01:56 PM

Does anyone besides Netflix use Silverlight for anything these days? Even Microsoft appears to have abandoned it.

**Snowhog** · Aug 24, 2014, 02:02 PM

Netflix is slowly killing off Silverlight & switching to HTML5, with Safari support starting today
June 3, 2014 12:37 PM

With Apple and Microsoft supporting its plugin-free vision, Netflix’s next target is most likely Google and its massively popular Chrome browser, as well as the still-popular Firefox browser from Mozilla.

**Tom_ZeCat** · Aug 25, 2014, 11:08 AM

Originally posted by SteveRiley View Post

Does anyone besides Netflix use Silverlight for anything these days? Even Microsoft appears to have abandoned it.

LOL. Microsoft abandoning one of their products. Never happened before (harhum ... FrontPage, Money, Visual BASiC, BOB). I remember being surprised when Silverlight first came out because it was such an unneeded product. There were already so many applications that did what it did.

I think it's good that HTML5 appears to be emerging as a standard.

**jlittle** · Aug 25, 2014, 02:21 PM

Originally posted by Tom_ZeCat View Post

... I remember being surprised when Silverlight first came out because it was such an unneeded product. There were already so many applications that did what it did.

Adobe's Flash (and related stuff, like Air) was morphing into an OS, and so a threat to Microsoft's control of the {desk,lap}top. Many MS products have a similar motivation (IE, C#, Xbox...). Such products don't have to be commercially successful, they just have to muddy the waters, and having done so can be allowed to wither.

Regards, John Little

**Tom_ZeCat** · Aug 25, 2014, 02:38 PM

Originally posted by jlittle View Post

Adobe's Flash (and related stuff, like Air) was morphing into an OS, and so a threat to Microsoft's control of the {desk,lap}top. Many MS products have a similar motivation (IE, C#, Xbox...). Such products don't have to be commercially successful, they just have to muddy the waters, and having done so can be allowed to wither.

Regards, John Little

I did not realize that. Thanx for the info. Any idea why Microsoft abandoned Frontpage, Money, and Visual BASIC? I actually used to use both Frontpage and Visual BASIC. You used to be able to design a web site with Frontpage and you could add a lot of functionality with what were known as the Frontpage extensions. But MS bailed on that product, sending me to Dreamweaver. Thankfully, I never used Money. However, I was a heavy, heavy, Visual BASIC user. Just so it's not confusing, Microsoft does have a programming language today named Visual BASIC.NET. This is NOT the same language as Visual BASIC. When they came out with VB.NET, they broke all my code. Under the new pseudo VB, all of my projects would have to be re-written. This is yet another reason why I loathe and despise Microsoft. However, instead of making the jump to VB.NET like some programmers did, I flipped the finger at MS and its overpriced programming languages and went for REALbasic, which is very similar (and has since been renamed Xojo). Today I'm using neither. I'm learning C++, which is free in Linux with multiple free IDEs and compiles for Linux, Mac, and Windows. I'm making the jump from Xojo because, though Xojo can compile for Linux, very little Linux software is written in that language. A ton of Linux apps are written in C++.

Anyway, **** Microsoft. I probably would have kept using Frontpage and Visual BASIC if they hadn't abandoned these products.

**DoYouKubuntu** · Aug 26, 2014, 10:31 PM

Originally posted by Tom_ZeCat View Post

I wrote to them. Here's what I said:

Excellent. Very nice letter. I especially appreciate the tactful way you worded it. Nice job!

**Tom_ZeCat** · Aug 26, 2014, 10:47 PM

Originally posted by DoYouKubuntu View Post

Excellent. Very nice letter. I especially appreciate the tactful way you worded it. Nice job!

I almost forgot. I ended it with:

PS: UUUUUPPPP YOURSSSSSS!!!!! SCUMBAGS!!!!!!!
j/k

**DoYouKubuntu** · Aug 26, 2014, 11:32 PM

Originally posted by Tom_ZeCat View Post

I almost forgot. I ended it with:

PS: UUUUUPPPP YOURSSSSSS!!!!! SCUMBAGS!!!!!!!
j/k

Well, crap! Then I have to take back all that praise.

**SteveRiley** · Aug 27, 2014, 03:21 PM

Originally posted by jlittle View Post

Adobe's Flash (and related stuff, like Air) was morphing into an OS, and so a threat to Microsoft's control of the {desk,lap}top. Many MS products have a similar motivation (IE, C#, Xbox...). Such products don't have to be commercially successful, they just have to muddy the waters, and having done so can be allowed to wither.

It's about a pesky little thing called competition, you know. Granted, in many cases, Microsoft's entry into $THING could have been better, but if there were no competition, we'd all still be building stuff out of stone knives and bearskins and using smoke signals to tell the clan where to come find tonight's dinner.

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