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OK Go Goes HTML5
edumacator writes "The YouTube sensation OK Go has just released their latest video using HTML5. The video is pretty cool itself, but the interactive feature is great." It looks like the interactive stuff only works in Chrome.
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WTF? I think I'm going to throw up now.
You sir, owe it to yourself to observe more frequently the fecal matter of homosexuals. It will spare you the embarrassment of making such an incorrect statement again.
Not only was it not very impressive in *ANY* way. Technically, musically or even artistically.
But bah whatever I'm anon and only people who are going to even read this will vote it down anyhow...
Human Centipede II: The commercially-funded, neo-MTV sensation.
your so gay n u dont even lyk boiz
and even if it were great, wtf. since when did slashdot become an art channel for specific releases and having videos embedded in the fucking article? WHAT THE FUCK? it's fucking '70s "artsy" too, no pixels in sight. this was not enabled by the new gen web techniques. this is shit. sorry. also, they're not a sensation. on top of all that shit, there's a fucking nintendo 3ds advert there.
and yeah this post is like a youtube lame comment, but you know what, so is this fucking article. I bet i'll have to add some nice words about spandex and plexiglass here so that the stool filter will let me post this.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Are you saying gay shit can only come from the asshole of a homosexual? How do you know your shit isn't gay? Do you ask it? Personally I find your insinuation hateful and insulting. As a civilized human being, I let my fecal matter make it's own decisions on sexual orientation rather than forcing it to conform to my own preferences.
feet.
"This site works best with..." remember the loathe 'we' used to have for that phrase, because it was almost invariably followed by "Internet Explorer"?
Welcome to semi-recent developments where that phrase makes its comeback, now to be followed by Google Chrome.
So I'll augment my post from yesterday with:
How about installing Google Chrome when you want to watch an online presentation purportedly made using HTML5 standard tech?
WT Heck. This video is so annoying I couldn't even finish watching it. And a web site that says "You have to download and install a Google product to use me"? Um, no thanks?
It takes me about 3 seconds to leave a web site that says I have to download a Google product to view it.
"Left To My Own Devices" by the Pet Shop Boys? For those who do, the OK video looks only half as impressive.
They tea bagged me multiple times in this video
(facepalm) yet another shining example of functional illiteracy running rampant in our society.
"Literally".... good grief.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
At least Flash was pretty much playable in most browsers.
If it doesn't work in at least 90% of the installed browsers, it shouldn't be on the public web.
I like Ok Go, They have an interesting way of using non-cgi to make interesting music videos... however looking at this video from a technical project standpoint... do the browser features (aka: HTML5) really add anything to this video? Don't get me wrong, the capabilities of the browser are really neat, and I bet it was quite the project to put this together. But, the technology doesn't really add anything visually to the video. It just stacks windows next to and on top of each other... might as well skip the multiple windows and just create frames or for that sake, just have them in a single video... I think Arcade Fire's video at http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ was a lot more interesting and a lot better use of web-tech. For one, it used Google maps data in a little more interesting of a way than simply writing out your message w/ feet. Also, they were able to use single backdrop with objects popping up in windows in different areas rather than just a matrix of windows playing a different video stream.
Google. You're turning evil. In fact, over the last year you've turned way more evil than I could ever have anticipated. What with Chromebooks turning Chrome into a 'proprietary apps' platform, when those apps, save for their 'Chrome packaging' should have been normal webapps for any browser ... and now this.
I'm out.
Note:. This didn't even work in Chromium. CHROMIUM!!! I had to get 'Google Chrome' for it to work.
Don't you hate it when that blasted RMS eventually keeps turning out right all the time ... :(
If you touch any of the dozen windows that it opens up things will not work as intended. Even tabing to the other windows just to see what it opened up will cause it to be a bit off in its presentation.
The video and music are far from the worst thing I've ever seen. I mean, compared to the current state of American pop music this is high art. That said, this feels like pop music for people who like to pretend they don't like pop music.
And what happened with HTML5 being an open, cross-platform standard? I thought we had seen the last of browser-specific websites. Either the developers were too lazy to ensure this worked in all browsers or, far more likely, they were pushed into making this Chrome only. Either way, it doesn't bode well for HTML5 at all especially if companies are going to start offering proprietary variations.
It's probably not good for the future of Chrome either. Microsoft could get away with it because they already had massive market share by the time this sort of thing started happening. And at the time it happened mostly because developers couldn't be bothered to support other browsers.
Who the fuck is "OK Go" ?? /. running an advert for them?
And why
Also, their crappy site says:
>>We're sorry, but this content was designed with the browser Google Chrome in mind.
>> As a result, it may not work properly in your current browser. We recommend using Google Chrome.
"Recommend" ?? Bullshit. It won't let you see it in any other browser. That's not recommending.
In summation, a mediocre artsy group released a shit video using an HTML5able codec so they can be whored around by Google to get a greater browser market share.
Oh wait scratch that - doesn't work. Server is overloaded and the Youtube version is done playing by the time the HTML 5 version has finished loading.
tmb;dw (Too much bulge; didn't watch)
"This is a Chrome Experiment"
and this is me closing the page *click*
Streaming frames using HTML 5 is not very clever IMHO.
I can think of only one reason to like this: all my hipster friends like it, and I have to like it because I'm a hipster too.
Taint all that good.
The audio for me was stuck on full blast and sounded as if it was being played through blown speakers. The video is cool... but you would think musicians would focus more on sound.
So when Apple posts HTML5 demos that only work in Safari, everyone shit on them. I fully expect here on Slashdot to jump on Google's case for making this Chrome-only. Right, guys? Guys?
Definitely a top 10 most annoying web site ever. You click play and it opens about 20 Google Chrome windows and starts playing bad, migraine inducing, loud music. Whoever thought this was a good promotion of anything is freaking nuts.
This is a great example of what you get for trying a Google product. Even their search engine sucks these days as it is nothing but a bunch of SEO spam. You should try a Google Android based phone next, if you like having your cell phone crash more than a windows 95 PC that is.
The link to the "interactive" portion after putting in your message and hitting "Go" opens up 15 separate Chrome Windows. Thanks for the warning douchedot...
Ave Molech Setting
As we don't get a new feet font.
As a result, it may not work properly in your current browser.
It definitely won't work if you don't even let it try, as seems to be the case with Firefox 5.
did they put dudes in that video at all. Men in tights aren't a good thing from any angle.
Microsoft aggravates my tourettes syndrome.
+1 Insightful.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Sorry, OK Go. It looks like this website is an "oh no". Whenever I click "Ok" on the website I am greeted with "Error: Not Found /post was not found on this server."
The requested URL
I'm not saying this video is gay, but Marcus Bachmann says it's "fabulous".
And he shits Frogurt, so draw your own conclusions.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Gross!
love is just extroverted narcissism
Okay, so the message when visiting with Safari says "We're sorry, but this content was designed with the browser Google Chrome in mind. As a result, it may not work properly in your current browser. We recommend using Google Chrome." So I think, "Well, Chrome essentially cribbed their HTML5 engine from Safari, so I should be good. I'll give it a try." Unfortunately, there's no way to get past the message. Perhaps they should rephrase "It may not work in your current browser" to "We won't let you view this with anything but Chrome." Ah well. It will take more than an interactive movie video to make me install Chrome. *close*
That's a lotta flesh pressing against my screen...
of any features being labeled as "HTML5 compliant" right now, especially if they only work on one browser. Every browser maker has a code base that they use to add features to their browser, and every single one of them is going to try to push features into this "open specification" that best suit the code base THEY already have and best suit THEIR position in the browser market. If web developers and users strongly favor one browser's list of supported features before the specification is even finalized, the open-ness of the specifcation doesn't make a difference. That browser gets to skip the first step and jump right to Extend and Extinguish.
Name one F'ing site that displays HTML5 correctly in IE or Firefox. The only browser that "FULLY" supports HTML5 so far is chrome. I was blown away by the creativity of this video and even more after reviewing the code. DAMN TROLLS .
It's a cool idea and the YouTube video is neat, but requiring Chrome? Non-starter. I'm sure it's because they're pushing WebM video out, and so it's just another shot in Google's War On Apple (the WebM vs. H.264 battle again). No thanks. I use Chrome on occasion, but I refuse to use websites that require one specific browser even when it's supposedly up to standards.
Last summer when Arcade Fire did their Chrome Experiments video (the interactive film for "We Used to Wait"), it rendered really well on Safari and Chrome, OK on prerelease Firefox builds, and not really on IE8, but that was because it really was built in HTML5 and made concerted efforts to be neutral.
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"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
It was just a video playing across a bunch of windows - didn't seem very interractive to me. Oh, apart from entering a message and seeing video loops of the letters at the end. Maybe I'm just jaded by the WebGL work I've seen recently, but this didn't really impress me that much.Probably didn't help that I hated the video and the music, but meh.
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
Man, I thought the cyclists around here wore *their* clothes too tight! That's more crotch (male and female) than I had hoped to see. Art, I guess.
At the moment it appears Chrome is the furthest along
Based on what? The fact this site only uses Chrome?
All of the webkit based browsers are neck in neck. There's no reason other than marketing this site could not use Safari or Mozilla.
Sadly changing the user agent alone does not appear to be enough to trick it...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The biggest news story we just discovered is how EVIL Google has become! They are now refusing content if you don't use the Google browser? WOW WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED? Sorry for caps.
> It looks like the interactive stuff only works in Chrome.
Requires IE and Active X.
The 1980's called. They want their "only works in browser X" meme back.
Don't make your text fucking white on almost-white. It is completely unreadable.
Design rule number 2, make it fucking work. This is a cross-browser language you used. Why use HTML5 if you're not going to make it work on HTML5 compatible browsers?
I am not devoid of humor.
My god, I cannot believe how whiny everybody is being about this. For fuck's sake, nobody's twisting your arm.
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