HTML5 and Green

A few minor website update announcements.

I have been toying with the idea of changing my website to be entirely run using Vimeo video, instead of the old Quicktime format I was using for all my videos.  I first updated just my reel, which worked nicely, but didn't give me much control on my site.  Since I don't pay for a Vimeo Plus account (at $60/yr), the only way you could view my video's in HD was on Vimeo itself.

I chose Vimeo over YouTube because, well... Vimeo is more highly respectable.  YouTube has this stigma of displaying vloggers who are sharing their unnatural and disturbingly obsessive views on why they think Jacob deserves Bella.  The problem with Vimeo is that it is missing a critical function that YouTube offers... UNLISTED videos.  On Vimeo, the best you can do is password protect.  What I use unlisted videos for is linking my web page to the video, but making sure it'snot searchable outside of my actual webpage.

I decided to go fully HTML5 compatible this weekend, to hopefully ensure that all platforms, and all mobile device users can access my content with no problem, in an easy, low-stress and low-bandwith player.

The VIDEO tag in HTML5 allows your player to natively play whatever embedded video I have linked.  In Chrome this works the best, Opera, Safari and Firefox are also very good at doing this, however Internet Explorer users will have to use my fallback link, which is simply the same video using a Vimeo embed.

You can get Chrome here: www.google.com/chrome
I highly recommend it.

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Next order of brief business, my web host Brinkster has just announced that they have gone 100% wind powered.  I'm not sure the effects of this, I've only seen bits and pieces of the Al Gore documentary, but I assume it's good, and if my web host is proud to display the windmill logo, then so am I.  So, there it is, for all who are curious, on my main page.

Thanks for reading and more updates on movies coming soon.