Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
This 'glimpse of future web technologies', all in one document is pretty nifty. Lots of different web stuff in there, including rotated videos, fancy CSS, and DFXP captions for videos. Thanks to Sam Ruby for pointing to Philippe Le Hegaret's work. more →
Update: Chris Blizzard has a neat screencast showing the bookmarklet and player replacement in action. There's been some interesting demo's of <video> usage and manipulation discussed in the TinyVid Feedback comments section. One user, hansschmucker, has done some nice demonstrations of what <video> can offer. For example, this bookmarklet can take a TinyVid video and replace the player using the... more →
I did some minor tweaks to tinyvid.tv recently. I added the ability to add comments to video pages, and add feedback on the site. This uses Intense Debate, a third party commenting engine. On the video front I added a page to return a random video from those available. The video pages themselves show the duration, download progress and current... more →
I'm still looking at the different options for tinyid to handle registration and authentication of users. My recent change added logging in using your Facebook account using Facebook Connect. Another option I'm considering is OpenID. There's a good blog post comparing the Facebook vs the OpenID stack. The same weblog has a post on using OpenID in a popup without... more →
I've been experimenting with integrating features from the social networking site Facebook into tinyvid. To do this I'm using the 'Facebook Connect' API. When you register a Facebook application you need to provide URL's to your application's site so Facebook knows where to send the user on redirects from logging in, and handle messaging between Facebook and your application. To... more →