Okay, now that you’re back and properly equipped, pay a visit to Dailymotion’s Internet Explorer 9 information page and drag the site’s icon from the Explorer address bar to your Windows 7 taskbar. This “pins” the site and demonstrates one of this browser’s most powerful new capabilities. From a pinned taskbar icon, you may select from a “jump list” of convenient links on the site and launch a customized Explorer window. In Dailymotion’s case, the jump list offers links to upload a video or visit your favorite channels.
After pinning the site, click on the HTML5 Demo link to begin discovering what else the future has in store. A high-quality movie trailer is embedded directly in the page using HTML5’s new video container. This trailer serves as a specimen for some fun effects and gadgets that show you what’s now possible. The button labeled Snapshot, for example, captures the current video frame and pastes it as a still on the corner. Explode breaks the video into pieces so it fragments across the page. Frame by Frame clones the video into a matrix—two by two, then three by three, then four by four, ad virtual infinitum. The more clones you add, the more you’ll notice a slight delay from copy to copy, so the frames seem to sweep across the array. This stuff just isn’t possible with video played through a plug-in.
The demo page describes some of the new Web standards it employs. And it provides a link for opting into HTML5 video across the entire site. Your preference is stored in a cookie; return to the Demo page to switch back to old-style plugged-in videos. But why would anyone want to do that?
This story, "Embrace the Future and Explode Some Videos" was originally published by BrandPost.