[samigo-team] Replacing Java applet with HTML5/Flash

[Sam Ottenhoff]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Keli Sato Amann <kamann at stanford.edu>wrote:

> Hi Sam,
> Would you be willing to demo this on March 5th, which is the next
> scheduled SAMigo meeting? I can't speak for the whole team here at
> Stanford, but if the rest of the interested community is in agreement that
> this is comprable to the Java app in high-level ways, I can't see why we
> would need to branch this. We could do it sooner on Tuesday March26
> instead, but it's a off week so people and possibly the conference room may
> already be booked. If you are willing, let me know date that is best (11
> pacific 2 eastern). Would be nice if you could show in chrome first, then
> in Safari.
>
>

Sure, I can demo on March 5th.  I can't do it tomorrow.



> I'm still unsure of why playback in the QuickTime player and in the popup
> window doesn't work for me--does it work for you? I have a MacBook Pro, if
> it matters. I thought at first that you were saying we'd be required to
> switch to them HTML5 audio player to enable this, but the QT player plays
> the au files from the Java recording app, so I wouldn't think that would be
> the case.
>


I'm not sure, but I believe it's related to mime types.  Maybe someone who
understands web audio better can chime in.



>
> Regarding switching the player to HTML5 to remove QT dependency, that
> seems like a relatively easy thing to do, though I'm unclear of the
> advantages.  I've added this as SAM-2067 if you want to comment.
>


The advantage is that you don't need a plugin!  Windows OOTB isn't going to
have a Quicktime player without downloading and installing.  Being able to
use native browser components is a huge step forward.

--Sam
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