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Folks,

I just uploaded the rest of the files from the Pantechnicon that I have (well, at least all stacks, I left out the script snippets for now as they wouldn't display/download too well without some extra work).

I've also uploaded a little un-scripted, spontaneous (i.e. full of awkward pauses) screencast that demos the very basics of HyperCard using a simple example. Maybe I'll add more if I can find the time, but this should give people a vague idea what HyperCard is.

All this is at:

http://hypercard.org

together with all those links and documentation on HyperCard, and the xTalk interviews (which BTW now include an interview with the author of BayCard)..

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
http://stacksmith.org

That screencast doesn't function in Firefox on Linux :(

Richmond.

--- In HyperCard-Mailing-List, Uli Kusterer <Witness.of.TeachText@...> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I just uploaded the rest of the files from the Pantechnicon that I have (well, at least all stacks, I left out the script snippets for now as they wouldn't display/download too well without some extra work).
>
> I've also uploaded a little un-scripted, spontaneous (i.e. full of awkward pauses) screencast that demos the very basics of HyperCard using a simple example. Maybe I'll add more if I can find the time, but this should give people a vague idea what HyperCard is.
>
> All this is at:
>
> http://hypercard.org
>
> together with all those links and documentation on HyperCard, and the xTalk interviews (which BTW now include an interview with the author of BayCard).
>
> Cheers,
> -- Uli Kusterer
> http://stacksmith.org
>

It doesn't work on Firefox anywhere, because Firefox's developers are anti-H.264. So right now I have the choice of either using the video tag, where Firefox refuses to handle H.264 for ideological reasons, or using the QuickTime plugin which doesn't work on most mobile browsers and newer versions of IE because none of them support plugins, but all of them support the video tag and HTML.

One day I might get around to writing a special script that serves different code to Firefox that uses the old QuickTime stuff. Until then, you'll have to use another browser.

I've heard that Firefox 20 will support H.264 using whatever facilities the system has built in, but that may be Windows-only.

-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.masters-of-the-void.com


On 24.02.2013, at 10:30, geradamas <richmond@[redacted].maclaunchcom> wrote:
> That screencast doesn't function in Firefox on Linux :(
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> Richmond.
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> --- In HyperCard-Mailing-List, Uli Kusterer <Witness.of.TeachText@...> wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I just uploaded the rest of the files from the Pantechnicon that I have (well, at least all stacks, I left out the script snippets for now as they wouldn't display/download too well without some extra work).
>>
>> I've also uploaded a little un-scripted, spontaneous (i.e. full of awkward pauses) screencast that demos the very basics of HyperCard using a simple example. Maybe I'll add more if I can find the time, but this should give people a vague idea what HyperCard is.
>>
>> All this is at:
>>
>> http://hypercard.org
>>
>> together with all those links and documentation on HyperCard, and the xTalk interviews (which BTW now include an interview with the author of BayCard).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- Uli Kusterer
>> http://stacksmith.org
>>
>
>
>
>
>

If you don't know about this page, you should get familiar with it:

http://sandbox.thewikies.com/vfe-generator/

As it stands it prefers non-Flash solutions, with Flash as the fallback, but that can be switched around. Flash can play H.264 just fine, even in Firefox. If the user doesn't have Flash Player for Firefox, and you want to support that user (without making them change browsers), you would also include OggVideo or WebM versions of the video.

Can't get that to work for me. :-(

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.stacksmith.com

On 24.02.2013, at 19:04, Colin Holgate <coiin@[redacted].net wrote:

> If you don't know about this page, you should get familiar with it:
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> http://sandbox.thewikies.com/vfe-generator/
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> As it stands it prefers non-Flash solutions, with Flash as the fallback, but that can be switched around. Flash can play H.264 just fine, even in Firefox. If the user doesn't have Flash Player for Firefox, and you want to support that user (without making them change browsers), you would also include OggVideo or WebM versions of the video.
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>

It works for me in Firefox and on my iPad. What kind of machine are you trying on?


On Feb 24, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Uli Kusterer <Witness.of.TeachText@[redacted].net wrote:

> Can't get that to work for me. :-(



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Thing is, I don't want the movie to load right away. I want my poster to load, then the user clicks the poster, and only *then* the movie gets loaded.

As soon as I insert the code in the JavaScript, nothing happens on a click. And honestly, given Firefox devs have announced H.264 and most Macs these days don't have Flash, I'm not interested in spending much time on trying to fix this. More interesting things to do :-)

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.lookandfeelcast.com

On 24.02.2013, at 19:30, Colin Holgate <coiin@[redacted].net wrote:

> It works for me in Firefox and on my iPad. What kind of machine are you trying on?
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> On Feb 24, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Uli Kusterer <Witness.of.TeachText@[redacted].net wrote:
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>> Can't get that to work for me. :-(
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