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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

You're reading from   HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook Take the fast track to the rapidly growing world of HTML5 data and services with this brilliantly practical cookbook. Whether building websites or web applications, this is the handbook you need to master HTML5.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783559282
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Display of Textual Data 2. Display of Graphical Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Animated Data Display 4. Using HTML5 Input Components 5. Custom Input Components 6. Data Validation 7. Data Serialization 8. Communicating with Servers 9. Client-side Templates 10. Data Binding Frameworks 11. Data Storage 12. Multimedia Installing Node.js and Using npm Community and Resources Index

Adding text to your video


When displaying multilingual videos we often want to provide text for persons who speak other languages. This is a common practice for many conference talks as well as plenty of movies and TV shows. In order to enable external text track resources in the video the WebVTT (http://dev.w3.org/html5/webvtt/) standard was created.

Getting ready

For simplicity, we will use the same video together with the poster images, same as we used in the other examples. As for the other files we will create them ourselves. You can also pick other video on your own since the video itself will not be all that relevant.

How to do it...

We start with the HTML, where we include the video element and additionally add track elements as well as simple example.js. Perform the following steps:

  1. In the body element we include :

        <p>
          <video width="640" height="360" poster="poster.png" controls preload loop>
         Video playback not supported <a href="http://archive.org/download...
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