First YouTube, now Vimeo. Not to mention Firefox’s adoption of the HTML5 standard. The ability to quickly embed videos using built-in HTML5 might soon spread around the internet, at least as long as the big browsers support it – Microsoft, update your browser for once. (At the moment, [blippr]Chrome[/blippr], [blippr]Safari[/blippr], [blippr]Firefox[/blippr], and Chrome Frame for [blippr]Internet Explorer[/blippr] all operate fine.)

This could be a bold step for almost all of the internet video companies, as they strive to set the new standard and, as Gizmodo puts it, “jumping into bed with HTML”.

Flash, as you might have noticed, makes up a huge proportion of interactive content on the internet. Whether it be simple embedded games, video-sharing websites or banner ads, Flash covers it all. However, it’d seem that HTML5 volunteers to change that, perhaps forever.

We may have more to say about HTML5. Keep tuned.

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[blippr]YouTube[/blippr] have begun to roll out a new type of its video player, one that supports the new HTML5 standard. Currently at TestTube, the video service is offering users the advantage of the upcoming standard for HTML. YouTube have also implemented a new general layout.

HTML5 is a new standard for the internet. Among other things, it’s supporting drag-and-drop, video, audio, canvas drawing, APIs and so many more features. Youtube claim that an HTML5 compatible player was the number-one request from all of its users. HTML5 supports simple video embeds, YouTube has released a version of its player that runs on just HTML5. No flash, no javascript – just video (something that could largely boost YouTube’s spread over the internet.

As for the new layout, it’s been made more simplistic and easy to use – cutting out a lot of the crap from the old UI and improving it to something new.

It’s probably a swift move for [blippr]Google [/blippr]to switch. Not at the moment, as few people are currently able to run the HTML5 engine as their browser doesn’t support it (die IE6) – but I mean, it only works on [blippr]Safari[/blippr], [blippr]Chrome[/blippr], [blippr]Firefox[/blippr] 3.6+ or Chrome Frame for [blippr]Internet Explorer[/blippr].

Naturally there’s things it can’t do. Videos with advertising, videos with captions or annotations don’t work. It can’t support hover-over commands and there’s likely many problems that it’ll encounter. However, like I said – this’ll probably be a good way to speed up the website, and optimize – and probably make it easier to download videos.

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First thing I’m going to ask is: Have you ever learned a programming language? If the answer is no or yes, keep on reading.

Programming comes in various shapes and forms, although the most common to learn are the web languages, and the one that most people who know a programming language will know is Hyper-Text Markup Language, commonly known as HTML. Currently in the 5th revision, as well as xHTML 1.0, it’s a powerful language that is also easily shared and entirely supported.

You also get more difficult web languages. The next hardest after xHTML is CSS, used for theming web pages. Then PHP used for various things to do with databases and processing information – disadvantage being you have to be able to have a server to test on, you can’t test on your own computer.

Then there’s the software programming languages, like Ruby, C/C++/C#, and Java. These are renowned for being difficult to learn and hard to understand – for example, Ruby is the simplest and easiest but is object-orientated. The C languages deal with various things such as dealing with memory storage and allocation – which is confusing!

But on a rainy day, learning a programming language isn’t a bad idea. I’m fluent in the easiest, HTML, xHTML and CSS, Ruby, some Javascript, and I’m learning PHP and considering learning C. That’s a bit of a broad spectrum, which means I don’t know some of them as much as I should.

Anyway, here’s a list of great tutorials for learning web languages, and links to great books for that same purpose.

HTML: http://www.html.net/tutorials/html/
CSS: http://www.w3schools.com/css/
Ruby: http://www.ruby-lang.org/ (click ‘Learn Ruby in 20 minutes’ – best tutorial I’ve ever used to getting the grips.)
C: http://www.cprogramming.com/

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