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• Talk at Web Directions South, Sydney : HTML5 audio and video

  27 novembre 2010, par silvia
  On 14th October I gave a talk at Web Directions South on “HTML5 audio and video – using these exciting new elements in practice”. I wanted to give people an introduction into how to use these elements while at the same time stirring their imagination as to the design possibilities now that these (...)

• adaptive HTTP streaming for open codecs

  14 octobre 2010, par silvia
  At this week’s FOMS in New York we had one over-arching topic that seemed to be of interest to every single participant: how to do adaptive bitrate streaming over HTTP for open codecs. On the first day, there was a general discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of adaptive HTTP (...)

• State of Media Accessibility in HTML5

  2 octobre 2010, par silvia
  Today I gave a talk at the Open Video Conference about the state of the specifications in HTML5 for media accessibility. To be clear: at this exact moment, there is no actual specification text in the W3C version of HTML5 for media accessibility. There is, however, some text in the WHATWG (...)

• Your metadata is not my metadata

  1er octobre 2010, par silvia
  Over the last two days we had the Open Subtitles Summit here in New York. It was very exciting to feel the energy in the room to make a change to media accessibility – I am sure we will see much development over the next 12 months. We spoke much about HTML5 video and standards (...)

• My first released WordPress plugin

  23 septembre 2010, par silvia
  I’m pretty proud of this, which is why I’m dedicating a short blog post to it: today, John and I released my first WordPress plugin as open source to the WordPress plugins site. It’s got the boring name “External Videos” and builds a bridge between your WordPress instance and videos of channels on a (...)