OK, so this blog hasn’t been updated much recently; I’ve been busy OK. Rest assured there is another stringed thing project in the pipeline, based on an art box and a resonator kit; but that’s for the future.
One of the things I’ve been busy with recently at work is the HTML5 working group, and in particular the choice (or preferably non-choice) of caption format. Now that the <track> element seems to be stabilising, I’ve put together a demo of how captions , text description and and subtitles in W3C Timed text could be integrated using just this feature now, rather than waiting for the browser implementations to catch up. To make sure its cross browser, I decided to do it all in Javascript. If this remotely interests you, the current demo is here You’ll need IE9 or a recent build of Firefox to view it (Sorry Safari users, it doesn’t work for you yet; but I’m working on it; I’m not planning on testing Opera though).
If you don’t have an HTML 5 powered browser here’s a screenshot:
Longer term I aim to get this cleaned up and finished and posted on my Codeplex site (which also hasn’t seen much love recently) with audio descriptions, chapter navigation and stuff, so don’t go running off with the code just yet.
Oh, and the title? Yes this post was written using Windows Live Writer (soooo much nicer than hand crafting in notepad and pasting into Wordpress – one of the other reasons i haven’t blogged lately!)
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