Submitted by mattman on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:51
JW Player is a solid video player that is very simple to setup and use. One of my projects in the past required that I add text overlays on top of the Flash videos that were being played. This is not quite the same as a watermark that is burned into the video itself. It is merely a way to add dynamic text on top of the video without needing to re-encode it. I've developed a plugin called Textmark that will allow for text to be overlaid on top of a video.
Submitted by mattman on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 23:40
jQuery is a very powerful javascript library that I use all the time. For the most part, I find that it's simple to use, yet easy enough to do very advanced things. Anyone who has used jQuery knows that you can do quite a lot with selectors. One of the caveats that I run into often is using a selector for a DOM element that contains special characters. jQuery requires many characters to be escaped in the selector in order to function properly. The problem here is that jQuery doesn't offer a function that will escape your selector value for you. I've created such a function here:
