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Being in the precess of redesigning my portfolio, I’m very interested in current web technologies. One of those technologies is the HTML5 working spec and its <video> tag which I’m hoping to use. It may seem like a geek thing, but it can make embedding a video as easy as embedding an image. Compare that to the current method of embedding video… you’ve seen the complicated YouTube embed code…

John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a good write-up of the current debacle surrounding the choice of video codec in browsers (Safari & Chrome (and IE9) support H.264, Firefox & Chrome support Ogg-Theora). It will be interesting to see where things lead in a few years and what will happen with h.264 licensing, as well as possible patent issues with Ogg-Theora.

So, it’s 11 months late, but I’ve finally started to get some pieces up on the portfolio section of the site.

I’ve got one issue with it though (aside from it not being complete). Shadowbox, the media viewer I’m using, seems to have an issue with Firefox 3 and Adblock. It prevents any plugin media (including flash & quicktime) from loading in the viewer. If anyone has any ideas, I’m open to them. Right now, though, I think my best bet is to just provide a different view option for those users who may be affected. Are there any special firefox-only functions that can be used to detect plugins? I’d want this to be as automated as possible.