Player Object in HTML 5?

[David Bovill]

Peter what would be the best way - now or in the future to create the
controller and interactivity in an HTML 5 exported app, and use standard
HTML video elements to play the video?

On Friday, 18 December 2015, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> On 18/12/2015 02:21, Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>
>> I was messing with the HTML 5 Create Standalone in my project today. I
>> got it to load in Safari from my local drive and I could change cards and
>> see graphics load, objects hide and show, etc. It’s great!
>>
>
> I'm really glad that your experiments are going well!
>
> My player control, however, would not load a remote audio file. Are player
>> objects implemented yet? And even more important for me, are callbacks
>> based on millisecond timers going to work?
>>
>
> The player control isn't yet supported in the HTML5 engine.  I believe it
> will be possible to get it to work, probably, but unfortunately I don't
> expect to have enough development time to get it working before LiveCode
> 8.0 release.
>
> Very short interval timers can't be made to work reliably in JavaScript,
> as far as I know.  As I understand it (supported by the experiments I've
> done), browsers have an internal rendering framerate (usually aiming for
> whatever your monitor refresh rate is), and check & run JavaScript timers
> at each frame.  On the bright side, that should work just fine for
> animation purposes!
>
>                                 Peter
>
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