On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Michael Dale <dale(a)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