popcorn-js/readme.md

PopcornJS

The HTML5

Demos

• Original Mozilla Summit Demo: http://popcornjs.org/demos/semantic_video
• Brendan Eich Demo: http://popcornjs.org/demos/brendan_eich (made with butter)

Overview

Popcorn.js is an event system for

Popcorn is a JavaScript Function that wraps the native

1. maintains a reference to the original HTMLVideoElement
2. provides a normalized interface to the
3. 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.

API

We have begun API documentation here: https://gist.github.com/729213#file_popcorn_api.js

Plugin Factory

Popcorn also offers a plugin factory. Popcorn plugins are a way for developers to wrap functionality that responds to a point in a video.

Roadmap

We are working on the 0.3 & 1.0 Roadmaps at http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/popcornjs