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Merry Christmas

Casey Becking — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:48:03 +0000

Well it’s been a great year, got a great new job (quiksilver), got a new puppy (charlie), got into a new house (HB) and has been by far the best year yet. Got an amazing wife who has been so great through some rough patches in my life. Drank more monster than I ever though could (sorry wifey). Have some amazing friends and thrown some amazing parties (Beer Pong). Thank you everyone for everything and best wishes for the new year.

YouTube gets (unofficial) HTML 5 support

Casey Becking — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:46:31 +0000

YouTube’s video collection is now available without Adobe Flash, thanks to NeoSmart’s HTML 5 video streamer.
The first solid use for the HTML 5 video embedding functionality has finally appeared in the form of a front-end to YouTube which allows videos to be streamed without the need for Adobe’s Flash Player.

As reported by an anonymous SlashDot user, NeoSmart Technologies has gone live with a natty front-end to Google’s popular video sharing site which streams the native MP4 – stored by YouTube for streaming to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, which lack a native Flash player – via the video embedding functionality added to HTML 5.

While any HTML 5 compliant browser should support the video tag used by NeoSmart’s front-end, Mozilla Firefox will need an MP4 decoder plugin before playback will work. While the video embedding system in HTML 5 was designed to work with playback functionality in the browser itself – without the need for plugins – the restrictive licensing on the MP4 codec meant that the Mozilla Foundation chose not to ship MP4 support with the browser as standard.

Despite this little setback, once Firefox is configured to play MP4 files – or an alternative HTML 5-compliant browser such as Opera is used – the system works like a dream: simply enter the URL of a YouTube video to get an HTML 5 video container returned, with full support for controls including skip, pause, and rewind.

If the thought of having to copy and paste URLs is turning you off the idea, the company also provides a neat script for GreaseMonkey or UserScript which adds a “View in HTML5″ link to all YouTube pages.

With support for Flash on non-Windows operating systems sometimes hit and miss, especially on 64-bit editions, an alternative for YouTube is likely to be welcomed by all – with the possible exception of Adobe.

CSS3 Gradient Background

Casey Becking — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:25:53 +0000

Video… Check it out.

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Seattle

Casey Becking — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:22:23 +0000

Well I landed here in Seattle,Wa to visit family. I always love coming to this city, maybe it’s because it’s something different than the OC Life or it might be that the Microsoft hq is here. My dream job would be to work at microsoft on their mac products. I’m a geek what can I say.

Well as many of you have seen my database got corrupted and gone so now I have to re-write my tutorials and demos. Everyone bare with me. I will be writting them again and going into more detail it’s just going to take me a little time. I have a few projects I need to wrap up.