SublimeVideo: HTML5 video player [no plugin required]
In the ongoing shooting war between Apple and Adobe over Flash, advocates of a Flash-free internet have a new HTML5 player that delivers web video quickly, beautifully and without the resource overhead or security concerns.
Jilion, a team of application and user interface developers and designers based in Switzerland, has released SublimeVideo, an HTML5 video player that works in Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer (with Chrome Frame installed).
Current features (in the demo):
• HTML5 video goodness: no browser plugin, no Flash dependencies
• jump anywhere in the video and it’ll start buffering from that point
• Custom styled controls
• Sleek zoom-in/out transitions
• Live-resizing (when resizing the browser window)
• More advanced controls on a draggable pane
• Press spacebar to play/pause video (doesn’t always work in Flash)
• Full-screen mode by alt (option)-clicking on the full-window button (WebKit nightly builds only)
Thereupon, Jilion plans to add Firefox support, volume controls and “full” IE support (fall back to Flash). Final code for SublimeVideo will be soon released for free (non-commercial use).
And, yes, the demo posted on their site does work on my iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.1.3 and it loads freakin’ fast — it’s beautiful. No. Plugin. Required. No. Flash.
This is the future, people — the web without Flash is faster, more secure and one helluva lot less noisome.
via MacBreak Weekly 178 (00:11:50)
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Great! How is it with vector animation and interactivity?
It’s as good at “vector animation and interactivity” as you are at being clever, i.e. just get over it and find another way to make money already as your sell by date has come up (again) and you don’t deserve yet another extension.
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“Great! How is it with vector animation and interactivity?”
- Ummm.. I’m pretty sure that the HTML5 Canvas object (along with javascript) has this part of the equation licked…. So, you’d better come up with something other than vector animation to keep yourself relevant…..
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Good posting, thanks a lot!