How-To On Ajax Code To Show Movies and Slide Shows

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 26, 2007 @10:34AM from the showing-them-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sites like Flikr and YouTube show just the tip of the full potential for media on the Web. An IBM DeveloperWorks article provides some easy implementations of video and image browsing that you can use in your own project. Learn how to combine media with technologies such as PHP and Ajax to create a compelling experience. All Sample code is made available, and if you're into Mashups the site's Mashup resource space should have everything you need to create a Mashup of your own."

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Outrageously bad code by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-26 13:53 · Score: -1, Flamebait

How did this get on Slashdot? There's absolutely no point in using an asynchronous request for getting a static XML file. Server-side or client-side XML+XSLT would have been much cleaner. Also the video embedding code is extremely rudimentary. Video embedding is tricky (until HTML5 with the VIDEO tag), you need some cross-browser redundancy. There isn't even an OBJECT tag. EMBED is not standard HTML btw, and if you must use it (for older Mozillas and Netscape) at least provide a mimetype.