All this clamor around open video and the new html spec have claimed to remove the ‘walled garden’ that flash is within the context of a page. Meaning that while users can see and interact with the content on the page, machines and code can not.

Now with the new html 5 video tag, spiders and other software can now identify the fact that there is a video on the page.

Can someone please help me understand how that is so much different than flash?

Whether or not the machine or software can identify video embedded on a page is still moot point until we can train that ‘reader’ to parse and understand the contents AND context of the video.

To set up a symbolic link type

    ln -s linktarget linkname

where linktarget is the directory to link to and linkname is the name of the symbolic link. You can type:

    rm linkname

to remove the link. Type

man ln

for more information.

in order to allow apache access on my mac i had to add an extra entry to the httpd.conf file (on the mac @ /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf – remember to back it up) that looks something like this:

<Directory /where/you/export/your/swf>
    AllowOverride all
    Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

now in all of my test pages i can reference

<embed src=linkname></embed>

and whatever swf is in the location that i told the symlink to go to will be pulled in.

Thanks Justin!