Comments on: A good day for Open Video. A long way to go!

By: jamienk

jamienk — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:51:43 +0000

@mayel — that’s a cool “full screen” trick, but You Tube (or Flash) full screen takes up the entire screen, not just the browser windows as this one does. A big difference. Here’s the mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453063

By: andysky

andysky — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:11:19 +0000

So, Google, will Chrome support Theora video? When?

By: mayel

mayel — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:13:03 +0000

It works great with FF 3.5b (Mac).

What’s missing is full-screen mode. I hope FF will implement it…

Fullscreen (but within the browser window) is possible using JS, here are some bookmarklets :
http://lelab.tv/player/js_fullscreen.htm

By: zacman85

zacman85 — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:05:02 +0000

To clarify, I am talking about the YouTube demo with which people are having a hard time seeing in other browsers.

By: zacman85

zacman85 — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:00:44 +0000

The demo was built in Safari 4 Beta. You can try it in other browsers given that it should be pretty standards compliant, but no guarantees. Code for HTML5 is being checked in to all of the OSS browsers at a pretty rapid rate. Safari (and the Webkit nightlies) simply happened to have the most complete set of features on the day we started building the demo. That may or may not have changed by now.

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:08:37 +0000

Johoooo…!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D

By: befa44

befa44 — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:42:16 +0000

yeah.. video was a bit blurry though

By: medikoo

medikoo — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:54:13 +0000

It works well on Safari 4 beta :)

By: pmontrasio

pmontrasio — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:57:53 +0000

Which browser did they use for the demo? I just tried with FF 3.5b4 on WinXP and I only get black video windows and JavaScript errors.

Finally, Dailymotion is still using Flash to show the videos on their openvideo site.