The HTML5
- Original Mozilla Summit Demo: http://popcornjs.org/demos/semantic_video
- Brendan Eich Demo: http://popcornjs.org/demos/brendan_eich (made with butter)
Popcorn.js is an event system for < video >, with strong syntactic sugar for chaining < video > methods and adding events to the timeline.
Popcorn is a JavaScript Function that wraps the native < video > element and returns a Popcorn object which;
- maintains a reference to the original HTMLVideoElement
- provides a normalized interface to the < video > elements native methods and properties.
- adds a special data property which contains meta data about the
By normalizing the native methods, the framework allows developers to write chainable function executions off the returned Popcorn object.
We have begun API documentation here: https://gist.github.com/729213#file_popcorn_api.js
Popcorn also offers a plugin factory. Popcorn plugins are a way for developers to wrap functionality that responds to a point in a video.
We are working on the 0.3 & 1.0 Roadmaps at http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/popcornjs
A changelog can be found here: https://webmademovies.lighthouseapp.com/projects/63272/changelog