I know that there are potential royalty issues with the MP4, but for now its the best one-shot solution. But to get the best out of your MP4 for Apple devices, modern browsers & Flash, there are a few things you should know.

1. You may notice some MP4′s you make don’t buffer properly in either Flash or HTML5 Video containers. It’s most likely your metadata & indexing inside your MP4 is not ordered properly by the encoder you’ve used. Not to worry. I’ve found a great program in some forums called MP4 FastStart. It re-orders & re-indexes your MP4 metadata for you, thus correcting common buffer issues.

2. For MP4s to work right in the iPad, you must make sure the first source tag contains your MP4 link.

3. Make sure your “type” in the source tag reads type=’video/mp4; codecs=”avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2″‘

4. For a listing of how you want to have your video customized (preload, autoplay, etc), visit W3 Schools for more info.

Those are pretty much the common hang-ups I’ve had. Let me know if you know of a great robust encoder that can easily convert to MP4 for free.

Its actually pretty simple.

First you’ll need the following line of Javascript.

<pre id="line1">var agent=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();

Then you can target by checking the returned string (the variable "agent") for the words ipad, iphone, or ipod. I've included an example below.

<pre>
<pre id="line1">if(agent.indexOf('ipad')!=-1){
   alert("Your running an iPad");
}

Pretty simple right? Imagine combining this with jQuery for different page styles, running different bits of code for different users, etc.

My personal favorite is Queasy Tools.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Blank windows for non-local site links
$("a[href*=http://]").not("a[href*="+location.host+"]").attr("target","_blank");
</script>
<a href="http://crossflightstudio.com">Personal Site</a>
<a href="/home/">Relative Link</a>
<a href="http://jonaswoods.net/home">Jonas Woods Home</a>
<a href="http://google.com">Google</a>

The site is just the way both of us hoped it would be, complete with MailChimp integration, GigPress, and an HTML 5 audio player. Not to mention the awesome retro vintage chalk board FX. Hot!

Seriously though, I ma very pleased with how this site came out. Thanks Jonas for letting me work with you on such a cool site.

Graceful, Elegant
Bold strokes dance upon paper
Calligrapher’s joy

And I’m glad to let you know, I seemed to have found a fix. Exporting graphics from Photoshop at the PNG‐24 Save For Web setting with transparency active, for whatever reason, causes Flash to occasionally throw an error when your FLA reloads. Apparently the issue comes from the PNG having a solid colored pixel touching an edge, and transparent pixel also touching an edge.

The fix is simple. Merely increase the RELATIVE canvas size by 2 on both the width & height in Photoshop & re-export your image. That’s all. After all these years of the obscure broken image…

It has many customizable features, from stretching SWFs, to adjusting screen resolution, and customizing your installer. Good source of fun, or potentially income!

Be sure and install the latest version, and then the newest beta.

Don’t forget to give back!

I also noticed, just switching the AS library from 2 –3 barely increased filesize on publish as well. The same was true with activating JPG de‐blocking.

Obviously, if you are remotely loading your images, the smallest file‐size image wins that test.