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HTML5 Enterprise Application Development

By : Nehal Shah, Gabriel José Balda Ortíz
Book Image

HTML5 Enterprise Application Development

By: Nehal Shah, Gabriel José Balda Ortíz

Overview of this book

<p>HTML5 has been a trending topic for a long time, but the lack of Flash support on iOS devices has sped up its penetration. New features in HTML5 come at a time when web developers are pushing the limits of what is achievable and HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript have become an important alternative for building rich user interfaces.<br /><br />"HTML5 Enterprise Application Development" will guide you through the process of building an enterprise application with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript through creating a movie finder application. You will learn how to apply HTML5 capabilities in real development problems and how to support consistent user experiences across multiple browsers and operating systems, including mobile platforms.<br /><br />This book will teach you how to build an enterprise application from scratch using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and external APIs.<br /><br />You will discover how to develop engaging experiences using HTML5 capabilities, including video and audio management, location services, and 3D and 2D animations. We will also cover debugging techniques, automated testing, and performance evaluations to give you all the tools needed for an efficient development workflow.<br /><br />"HTML5 Enterprise Application Development" is a comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to build an enterprise web application. You will learn through the implementation of a real-world application as we show you handy libraries, development tips, and development tools.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
HTML5 Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing a video player


MovieNow users would love to have a way to visualize trailers of their favorite movies. For that, we are going to create a player with basic functionality: play, pause, seek, volume control, and full screen.

We are going to use as an example a trailer of Sintel, an animated movie created with a free 3D animation tool known as Blender. This video trailer is hosted on the http://www.w3.org/ site in three major video formats: MP4 (mp4), WebM (webm), and Ogg Theora (ogv).

First, let's create a file called trailer.html and use our main page structure.

Inside the article tag, we use the video tag, which allows us to specify an initial image using the poster attribute to specify image path, and to show default controls using the controls attribute.

<video poster="img/trailer-poster.png" controls>

You can specify the src property directly for the video tag, but to support multiple video format files we are going to declare our files using the source tag inside video...