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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is everywhere. From PCs to tablets to smartphones and even TVs, the web is the most ubiquitous application platform and information medium bar. Its becoming a first class citizen in established operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 8 as well as the primary platform of new operating systems such as Google Chrome OS. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" contains over 100 recipes explaining how to utilize modern features and techniques when building websites or web applications. This book will help you to explore the full power of HTML5 - from number rounding to advanced graphics to real-time data binding. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" starts with the display of text and related data. Then you will be guided through graphs and animated visualizations followed by input and input controls. Data serialization, validation and communication with the server as well as modern frameworks with advanced features like automatic data binding and server communication will also be covered in detail.This book covers a fast track into new libraries and features that are part of HTML5!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding text to your video


When displaying multilingual videos we often want to provide text for persons who speak other languages. This is a common practice for many conference talks as well as plenty of movies and TV shows. In order to enable external text track resources in the video the WebVTT (http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/) standard was created.

Getting ready

For simplicity, we will use the same video together with the poster images, same as we used in the other examples. As for the other files we will create them ourselves. You can also pick other video on your own since the video itself will not be all that relevant.

How to do it...

We start with the HTML, where we include the video element and additionally add track elements as well as simple example.js. Perform the following steps:

  1. In the body element we include :

        <p>
          <video width="640" height="360" poster="poster.png" controls preload loop>
         Video playback not supported <a href="http://archive.org/download...