Mike Wilcox

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Mike Wilcox is Director of Technology for a fast growing startup in Frisco Texas, BetterVideo™ where he is in charge of front end engineering and the online video services. Mike is a regular speaker on AJAX and other web technologies, having spoken at many conferences including the 2009 Rich Web Experience, and 2009 DallasTechFest. His open source work is on display in the Dojo Toolkit, where as a committer, he's implemented many of the multimedia technologies including the Multi-File Uploader, The audio and video components, and the vector-based DojoX Drawing.

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Sessions

HTML5 Video

Level: 100
Track: None
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Day: 1
Room: Improving Enterprises 1

What is HTML5 Video and how is it different from what we are used to? What problems does it solve, and what issues does it have? This is the web, so it's open source right? In this presentation, we will address these questions and provide some basic terminology for understanding how video works. We'll show how to embed HTML5 Video, and how to implement a work-around for older browsers.