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Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player

Adrianne Jeffries, writing for ReadWriteWeb:

Vimeo is releasing a ‘universal player’ today that allows user to watch embedded Vimeo videos on mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad using the video playback capability built into the new HTML5 standard.

Awesome!

Also announced is an Instapaper-style feature:

Vimeo also announced a ‘watch later’ button today that will cue videos up in a playlist for users to catch up on when they get home from work.

Excellent! I have a “To Watch” playlist on YouTube for this same purpose, but a quick button click is much easier.

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It is therefore more cost effective in many cases to continue to use IE6 and rely on other measures, such as firewalls and malware scanning software, to further protect public sector internet users.

The government respond to the petition about upgrading to IE6. Oh dear, what a fail indeed.

They will need to update in 2014 when IE6 reaches ‘end of life’ anyway but their slowness at this is a big disappointment and holds back the web.

HM Government

 
The £105m website

Trust the government to give a job like this to BT, and give them a blank cheque to do what they want with it.

In our company, if we produced a website like Business Link - and all of us worked full time on the project, even hiring some extra staff to work on research, and content provision, not only would we make a much more attractive and easy to use site than the current Business Link website, but it would cost a fraction of the price. Literally. Like less than 0.1%.

The Government should give their contracts to small businesses and get real value for money.

 

We are always getting asked by clients “How can we prevent people stealing our images?”.

There really is no way to do it unless you watermark your images. All other ways can quite easily be avoided.

A client sent this site as an example; the site has disabled right-click. I recorded this quick video showing how I can simply drag-and-drop the image to steal it.

 
How would you use flash on an iPad or iPhone though? Anything Flash that requires the keyboard and the mouse at the same time wouldn’t work… Anything that uses arrow keys wouldn’t work… Hovering over controls for drop down menus on flash websites wouldn’t work… Enabling Flash wouldn’t do ***** all but enable ads, why exactly do we want this so bad?
One of the best arguments against flash on the iPhone/iPad yet (apart from the fact that flash is not a web standard, not open source, slow and buggy on the Mac and is fast becoming obselete)
 

Make sure your website is hosted properly

Our website service is usually completely bespoke, and completely controlled by ourselves.

We design the website, work out the site structure and the look and feel of it, sometimes we even create corporate identities. We then build the website, coding the theme by hand, and using tried and tested software packages for the CMS. We also set up Google Apps for email, and host the websites ourselves. Every part of the website process is controlled by us, and so everything is done properly and efficiently.

But I said “usually”.

Sometimes we have a client who just needs a redesign of their website, but they have hosting and emails. We try to encourage them to switch it all over to us, but sometimes they are happy with their current setup.

Then things like this happen.

Last night a virus — Troj/JSRedir-AK — infected all the websites under a company’s server (who we are in no way affiliated with, but happen to have worked on several of the sites before). The hosting was done by someone else (in someone’s bedroom, I fear). Needless to say, when the sh*t hit the fan we were the ones getting asked to fix it.

But the fault (out of date software, crappy Windows server, I don’t even think they have backups[!!]) is not down to us. We are going to help in every way we can, but we have even been locked out of FTP access because those passwords were changed.

I guess what I am trying to say is - be careful where you host your website. Our host has a stunning report, constant backups, 99.9% uptime. As far as we are concerned, viruses are things that happen to other people.

xkdc - Retro Virus

xkdc - Retro Virus

about shaun…

Name: Shaun Robinson

Age: 25

Occupation: Web Designer / Developer

Location: Ipswich, United Kingdom

Living with: My partner Andrew, and two kids Elliot and Oliver.

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