Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
null wrote:
Thanks for the above links, the contents of which have finally thrown
some light on what people REALLY mean when they talk about the "HTML5
video player", but somehow can't seem to say it clearly. For instance,
the videojs site says that
"Video.js is an open source library for working with video on the web,
also known as an *HTML video player."
*What, exactly, is this ungrammatical and ambiguous sentence actually
trying to tell me? ...
The term "open source library for working with video on the web" is
being equated with the term "HTML video player." In the simplest
possible terms, such a "library" is also called a "player."
Definition of "software library" from The Free Dictionary: "a
collection of standard routines used in computer programs, usually
stored as an executable file."
So the sentence really isn't ungrammatical or ambiguous. You just have
to know how to parse it.
Yes, as you say, in the "simplest possible terms", but sometimes
"simple" becomes "simplistic", and therefore less than clear. Saying
that you just have to know how to parse it is like saying that you just
have to understand written English! With the sort of stuff I'm talking
about in this thread, you shouldn't have to parse and syntatically
analyze, the meaning should be clear without having to resort to
re-reading, cogitation, etc. Don't want to make too much of that one
single sentence above, but I've gotta say that I've found the web
overflowing with masses of stuff about this or that aspect of computer
and web technology and new developments in these areas, and that a huge
proportion of it begs more questions than it answers because it fails to
comply with even the most basic principles of technical or expository
writing, or even with basic English grammar and syntax. Given that much
of it is there for the benefit of non-techie, ordinary users rather than
geeks, coders, developers, or whatever who would know a lot more, this
is very frustrating.
But getting back to the problem that I can't use SM or FF to watch video
presented with Youtube's HTML5 Player, people say that I don't have the
necessary codecs or that my XP OS doesn't have the necessary. Well, my
Chrome browser on my XP machine DOES play those videos. If Chrome has
something in it that does that running on XP, why doesn't FF and SM?
Now, I can think of various possible answers to that question, but i
can't identify the correct answer.
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