Comments on: Dynamic Content Injection with HTML5 Canvas and Video

By: hdragomir

hdragomir — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:28:13 +0000

Crazy cool indeed!

Maybe in a year, we’ll see video player frameworks that will be able to replace their Flash counterparts.

By: Aadaam

Aadaam — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:50:30 +0000

This is the only use of video element so far.

All of the examples I’ve seen, without any exceptions were: let’s use a video tag, hide it, and use a canvas instead while transforming the image (motion detection, etc).

Maybe, just maybe: wouldn’t it be easier to get a flash video player client which supports overlays and screengrabbing? HTML overlays are already supported in a lot of them. For screengrabbing, I don’t know if it’s possible with flash’s video API, possibly not.

Or maybe we should just define video as a subelement of canvas, as it’s the only way we use it.

By: raynevandunem

raynevandunem — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:36:47 +0000

I'm imagining a canvas/SVG equivalent of FLARToolkit, something that can serve as an alternative to proprietary solutions for web-based augmented reality.

By: tj111

tj111 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:51:50 +0000

I’m astonished by a) how seamless this is and b) how accurately the center of the screens is calculated (consistently). Also the fact that it’s done in vanilla HTML/JS.

By: iliad

iliad — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:45:30 +0000

“Crazy cool stuff :)”
You can say that again! That was pretty mind blowing. Can’t wait to see what people will do with this.