Week 4 of placement

This week, I completed work on the HTML5 audio player. I ended up abandoning the MooTools player, as it was not compatible with many versions of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 8 is Ireland's most popular browser so it's important to develop with this in mind. I chose to use jPlayer itself, which uses the jQuery library and offers Flash components for cross-browser compatibility. I then placed it on the Languages Initiative website and created a 4 column layout to display it by tape. You can check it out here:

Meta Spanish Audio Tapes

Aine, who works in web development with Digilogue, was making a Facebook app and I was asked to do some research on Google maps to save some time. I found out quite a lot about Google maps which was very interesting. Aine went through the code she'd created for the app with me, and in theory I should be able to do that at this stage, or at least some of it, because it's all HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. It's something I might try in my own time soon.

I also did some work with the DNG webcast, assessing the graphics and trying to come up with a different look for it. I also split some of the video clips for the last one, and we will storyboard a promotional video next week.

We decided to do my Inkling project on photography and we're going to get started on that next week.