Comments on: Gallery Contest: An Update

By: In the Wild for March 22, 2010 » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)

In the Wild for March 22, 2010 » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:39:44 +0000

[...] YUI community work to date has been done recently as part of the YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010; I surveyed some of the entrants on Friday and a few more have come in this weekend, including a Gallery version of Matt Snider’s Radial [...]

By: Matt Parker

Matt Parker — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:17:47 +0000

Hi Eric,

Will you take a look at the ineligible ones too, just for fun?

By: Josh L

Josh L — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:16:54 +0000

I just submitted my first pull request about 15 minutes ago. I’m very excited about getting my module added to the CDN. :)

By: Josh Brickner

Josh Brickner — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:09:18 +0000

Kroc, I think you are missing the point. YUI is a Javascript library, hence modules built for it will require Javascript. These HTML5 video modules aren’t meant to be used by everyone on the Internet to embed their videos, they are meant to make it convenient for developers who use YUI to add HTML5 video to their YUI based projects.

By: Eric Miraglia

Eric Miraglia — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:49:21 +0000

Jeffrey — Playback for me was clean on a wimpy old MacBook Pro, but on a huge pipe here at the Yahoo! office — this may be a bandwidth issue, not a performance issue. -Eric

By: Jeffrey Gilbert

Jeffrey Gilbert — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:22:52 +0000

I get choppy playback with it (beefy mac pro os x 10.5 on safari) which doesn’t inspire any confidence in this over tried and true flash delivery mechanisms

By: Kroc Camen

Kroc Camen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:13:28 +0000

The HTML5 player doesn’t work without JavaScript. Won’t work in RSS readers, won’t work for some users. The video tag is just a glorified IMG tag, it doesn’t require JS to be in the page—you can use JS to enhance it sure, but the actual Video tag should be right there in the source.

It can be done: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody