Only one day after Mac OSX Leopard was released, a team of hackers had come up a patch that lets people to install it on regular PC. It works, but not fully tested yet. Full story can be found at
Well its been only a day since the Mac OSX Leopard was released officially by Apple and the hackers have managed to create a patched DVD that everyone like you and me can use to install Leopard on PC’s without having to buy a Mac.
It requires an USB drive to hold a shell script that needs to be manually run after the installation. The steps listed are pretty simple and clear. Here are a few screenshots of installed results:
I wish Apple will release an official version of the Mac OSX for PC instead of a Hacked version. I remember trying to get Panther to work on my PC at one point and it was super painful to get every piece of the hardware to work. But i don’t think it would be anytime soon that Apple decides to completely take over the PC+Windows market.
Webkit just annonced that they are working on media tag support based on the HTML5 draft. It is currently implemented on Mac build and is based on the support of Quicktime.
Another nice feature from the HTML5 draft specification is now available in the WebKit nightly builds for Mac OS X. The new HTML5
Adding a video can be as simple as:
<video src=sample.mov autoplay></video>
What’s really exciting is the video playback control can be accessed directly by javascript.
<script>
function playPause() {
var myVideo = document.getElementsByTagName(’video’)[0];
if (myVideo.paused)
myVideo.play();
else
myVideo.pause();
}
</script>
<input type=button onclick=”playPause()” value=”Play/Pause”>
And also the controls can be tied into regular events:
myVideo.addEventListener(’ended’, function () {
alert(’video playback finished’)
} );
To play audio from JavaScript you can simply do this:
var audio = new Audio(”song.mp3″);
audio.play();
This is a huge improvement and definitely going the right direction. Now the question is when will it be released and is it going to be available on other browsers?
Now it’s getting me really excited about the up coming HTML 5.
Another question is, since this built is based on the support of QuickTimes, I’m assuming IE if it will support the same tags it will be based on WindowsMedia Player, but what about Firefox?
For any of you who checked out my blog today, you might’ve noticed it was showing domain expired. I appologize for the down time. It was my own mistake of not seeing the domain was actually expired a couple days ago.
I went ahead and renewed it. Fortunately, it is with Godaddy and it was brought back almost instantly after the renewal.
