How to run the mb.YTPlayer Plus WordPress plug-in on a development site
With the latest 3.3.3 release the mb.YTPlayer Plus WordPress plug-in introduces a new “Test mode” feature to let you use it without a license key. If the “Test mode” is active the plug-in will work without limitations for any logged…
Use a Youtube video as page background on mobile devices
The HTML5 ‘playsInline’ video property is almost stable and available on all the recent mobile browsers. What does it mean? The playsInline property let any HTML5 video to play in place instead of opening it as a new overlay window…
Use a Vimeo® video as background of your page
We are more and more experiencing the use of background videos on web pages; They are visually capturing our attention giving more informations about the content of the website then a text or an image can do. There are two possible…
YTPlayer. Use the same background video cross pages
With the last 3.0.13 release of the jquery.mb.YTPlayer plug-in I’ve introduced a new option that lets the same video across different pages to start at the same point you left on the previous page. This is quite useful if you…
mb.Balloon, a clever and helpful javascript tooltip solution
Working on the Twproject Application User Interface we at Open Lab were looking for a component that would had the capability to display a little box near a target element with a variety of customizable interfaces and behaviours. I started Working…
WordPress mb.thumbGallery, on the top of the media gallery short-code
“This non invasive plugin works on the standard WordPress gallery making it prettier and optionally extending its functionality. It is special in being 100% compatible with default galleries.” Most of the WordPress image gallery plug-ins come with their own gallery builder…
mb.YTPlayer 3.0 for WordPress
The next major release of the WordPress mb.YTPlayer plug-in will have a surprise. For many years this plug-in has been distributed for free asking for a donation to the author (me) to sustain the development. This politic did not give…
Firefox and the Youtube video quality issue
Google recently switched to adaptive videos streaming on YouTube by using Media Source Extensions. This technology generates media streams for playback in JavaScript allowing dynamic change of video quality and a more accurate control of the stream. You can check what…
Look at this! mb.bgndGallery goes fullscreen!
[youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reS9Lp1LbLY” width=”700″ height=”400″] I just implemented the new HTML5 Fullscreen API on two of my components: mb.YTPlayer and mb.bgndGallery. Using the element.requestFullScreen() and the document.cancelFullScreen() methods is now possible to display part of a page or the entire web…
The new jquery.mb.containerPlus 3.5.0
More freedom on customizations in a beautiful way. Add new features in a while. How many times you were asking me to implement tools to add easily a new button or new behaviors to the container? Many, believe me! With this…
