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OK Go Goes HTML5

Posted by samzenpus on from the can-you-feel-the-music? dept.

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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  1. IRONY OVERLOAD by suso · · Score: 5, Funny
    • 1. OK Go - Probably brought initial wave of people to Youtube
    • 2. New video promotion trying to show support for HTML5, an open standard and helps bring an end to flash.
    • 3. Website message when visiting with Firefox 5: We're sorry, but this content was designed with the browser Google Chrome in mind.
    • 4. Google trying to not be evil, yet icons at the bottom saying "Made with some friends from Google"

    WTF? I think I'm going to throw up now.

    1. Re:IRONY OVERLOAD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Chrome Advertisement, people. Nothing more.

  2. Youtube Sensation??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:This site works best with... by v1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

    "We recommend"? No. We DEMAND . If you mean it, say it. Or provide a "try it anyway" button.

    --
    I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
  4. Arcade Fire's was better and why HTML5? by Chetti · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  5. Google is evil. RMS was right. by recrudescence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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 ... :(

  6. WHO?? and Why?? by luckymutt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who the fuck is "OK Go" ??
    And why /. running an advert for them?

    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.

  7. Bottom left side of the page by __aaqvdr516 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "This is a Chrome Experiment"

    and this is me closing the page *click*