QuickTime and Validation

The issues of proprietary technology, open source standards and compliance have been highlighted over the past few days. My projected contains video and I have chosen to use QuickTime as the technology to deliver this.

I thought I had everything under control I had gone to the QuickTime site and found the code for embedding a QuickTime player in an HTML page. I tested the code and all seemed fine, however when I incorporated the code into the project I found it would not validate. It took quit a bit of tweaking to get the code working and validating.

Further reading revealed that embedding multimedia in XHTML pages is fraught with problems as a result of browser incompatibility, luckily we only have to get it working in Firefox.

Black Hat Penalties

Tim’s warning in this weeks lecture against using “black hat” methods to improve your Google ranking where illustrated this week with the “Found Agency” being penalised by Google for its alleged use of such methods. Google’s action saw the companies ranking drop from top of the listings to Fifty Second according to the Australian. Full Article.

As for my project, because I am running behind on it . I have decided I am going to create a number of test pages to test the code I m using and only when I have it working apply it to the project. Hopefully that way I will only be using code I know works to the final project. I would be interested to hear how other people are approaching the build.