On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Michael Dale dale@ucsc.edu wrote:
yea lets put player discussion on-list : )
Should the skin show up right from the beginning (i.e., with the thumbnail picture)?
I think we should include it (if the "controls" attribute is set to true) ...
Cool - that will make things simpler for individual player embed implementation (we can move the controls html construction code to the main mv_embed script and just query the player embed script regading which commands it supports through JS.
For now I'm keeping the testing limited to the flowplayer embed. You can see my progress at: http://urbanstew.org/MediaWiki/extensions/MetavidWiki/skins/mv_embed/sample_...
If you choose flowplayer for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th example you will see the skin pop into place when you hit play. Play/pause functionality, seeker bar (for display, not seeking yet) & time display all work (on Firefox).
Youtube does it .. in the future we could support jump to time seeking...
Good idea.
Should we migrate the icons/functionality accessible in the corners of the thumbnail (download, choose player, ...) to the icons on the control bar (options icon etc.)
Yes.
OK. I will now start migrating the skin code to the main script (I will probably refrain from committing until it appears to work well on multiple browsers)
How do we deal with the case where the requested width is insufficient for the entire control bar? impose a minimum width? Scale things down?
Bellow 320x240 I think we should hide the seek bar. You will probably have to do some hackery to get it to do dynamic layout widths properly. Let me know if you run into any css issues that seem insurmountable...
It looks like with the provided design, the breaking point when something needs to go is just under 400. I made the seek bar go away at that point. I'll try to fine-tune things more as I go.
Cheers,
Stjepan