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"got me up to speed quick" - by perred on 01-AUG-2012
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Thanks for this video series. You quickly got me up to speed interacting with video.

The two instructors here speak about how it is good that the browser is now handling video, whereas before it was given up to plugins (unnamed, but I'm sure they're referring to Flash mostly) that instruct the browser: just give us this rectangle on the screen and we'll take it from here.

By presenting it this way, the benefits of "open" are assumed, rather than explicit. It'd be nice I think to hear the drawbacks of a plugin. I've been a Flash developer for years and appreciated that Macromedia took care of browser compatibility behind the scenes so that I only had to write my code once and only needed to test it in one popular browser to know it'd work across all browsers.

On the other hand, I've become more and more frustrated with Adobe's revisions to the Flash plugin which instead of making loading and playing video simpler, require every coder to write GIANT unclear scripts just to handle video the way html5 did using the video tag. Flash plugin also has difficulty with recognizing a video's metadata in time to reconfigure a player and its controls correctly. Despite the many revisions to Flash, the plugin suffered lots of glitchy issues I was forced to write scripts and preload to work around.

So creating a clear contrast between the two would be a nice addition to any of these plugins vs html5-in-browser conversations.
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"Playing HTML5 Videos" - by aanderson on 07-FEB-2011
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The last few minutes are unaudible
And I found no accesibilty to Example files in the extras tab on Safaribooks online nor on the publishers site.
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