LAB 10 --- Linking streaming VIDEO to a webpage, FLASH and Making XML --- HODGEPODGE!

VIDEO UPLOAD TO YOUTUBE -- DEMO --- IT IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK

1. Take exisiting video, upload to computer from devide

2. Get a youtube account

3. Add in the required information about the movie

4. Upload to youtube

5. You can now easily get a link to embed in your own web page. It looks like this:

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uLSkC4N1BIc&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uLSkC4N1BIc&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

(your own videos will have the own unique "value" as a URL link).

6. Make a web page that links to a youtube video to convince yourself it is "that easy". See?

MAKING XML IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK

In Microsoft Excel, please create a spreadsheet of the following:

Field 1 - Name ten websites you vist over 5-10 minutes --- whatever you like

Field 2 - URL of the websites above

Field 3 - Rating from 1-5 stars

Save the Excel Spreadsheet. Now Save the spreadsheet as XML spreadsheet.

Open the saved XML spreadsheet using Windows Notepad. Examine the output.

Try dragging and dropping the XML version of the spreadsheet into Internet Explorer.

Try dragging and dropping the XML version of the spreadsheet into Firefox.

Any application that can read MSExcel XML can resolve the content in this file back into a spreadsheet in its native format. Since XML is a text based format, it easier to pass this over the Internet than to pass a binary application that needs to be “unpacked”.

FLASH --- FOR THOSE WHO ARE USING FLASH OR ARE CURIOUS ABOUT IT, WE HAVE A SPECIAL FLASH "EXPERT" PRESENT TO HELP YOU OUT. SEE HER.

Everyone else: Projects.