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Posted by Gιrard Talbot on 04/09/07 17:08
James Hutton wrote :
> I'm building a day by day history page, and I've managed to get hold of
> several audio and video clips from the time. (I've already sought
> permission from the copyright holders to host them.) Some of these are a
> simple <embed> of youtube videos,
You can improve your markup code with:
Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards by Drew McLellan, November 2002
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay
Bye Bye Embed: Embedding a video by Elizabeth Castro, July 2006
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed
Embedding Object with valid code by MediaWiki, March 2007
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Object_Embedding
Embedding flash without <embed> by Ian "Hixie" Hickson, April 2004
http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1081798064&count=1
however there are also several
> multi-mB .mp3 files and video files currently in .mpg and .wmv formats.
>
> I wonder what the "best" format is,
wmv has to be the worst format: it almost always implies you have to use
Windows Media Player.
and whether media should be
> streamed, downloaded into a standalone player, or should I be all
> dictatorial and not give the user any choice ;-) !
Imposing your preference (the dictatorial way) is definitely not what a
wide majority of reasonable people would recommend, would propose.
> I realise there will be no right or wrong answer, but I'd like to please
> "most of the people, most of the time."
>
> James
Choose .mp3, .mpg, .swf. Always identify content-type (content-type of
fetched resource by the link) in the code of links so that the browser
may best choose and start the correct plugin for the associated files.
Always identify the size of each file on the right of links so that way
the users can figure out on their own how much time the download can be.
Don't try to figure this out for them.
Identify your links with the type of needed media player. Overall, help
the users with useful, helpful info and give them freedom, latitude,
flexibility: e.g. don't auto-start streaming media, allow user control
buttons. Don't try to over-excessively control them.
GΓ©rard
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