Just when I think HTML5 sucks…
It still annoys the crap out of me, but there are some cool things in there. I just hate when people throw that word around like “We want to redo this flash to be HTML5.” What the hell does that mean exactly? And if you ask them, they have absolutely no idea. Its just a buzz word they are throwing around trying not to sound like they are out of touch. On a current project that I am working on, I came across a problem I needed to solve.
I needed to load videos on a page using the HTML5 video tag, with a flash fall back. The problem though is that there were about ten of them on the page, and the browser was reading the source tags and loading them. If this were just one video, this wouldn’t be a problem, but there were more and it was slowing things down.
The Solution
Which was to load the video on the fly when the flyout was triggered, but I needed to figure out how to get the right video to go with it. This is how I solved it.
As usual we’ll start with the HTML. First we have the link that will open the modal window. You don’t need to see the javascript that actually controls the modal, cause you can figure that out on your own. DO pay attention to the attributes on them.
