Mozilla has released the first version of Popcorn.js released. With the html5 toolkit may include more filmmakers interactivity to their web pages to add. Mozilla describes the opensourceplatform Popcorn.js if “jQuery for video’.
With Popcorn.js a javascriptbibliotheek of Mozilla Labs, filmmakers can make their videos more interactive on a website. With the javascript library they may have different apis, such as Google Maps and Flickr, to the displayed content link.
Specially for the edition have software developers, together with documentary makers, a special version of One Millionth Tower published. In this interactive documentary let the editors see what the toolkit is capable of. The film is not static, but makes also use of three.js that for a 3d experience, ” explains Mozilla.
Popcorn.js used the scripting language javascript for the links from social media, feeds and other content to the film. “The result is a new filmvorm, which works the same as the web: interactive, social and rich real-time content and capabilities,” writes Mozilla in a blog post.
Mozilla has for filmmakers and journalists a tool issued for the creation of Popcorn websites. They can with the so-called Popcorn Maker in the browser to work on a private project. The web application offers templates, and standard html-code.
