Here’s a snippet on how to use it in XSL

Unicode Copyright Symbol – Programmers, please NOTE:

Unicode is required by modern standards such as Java, XML, ECMAScript / JavaScript, CORBA, WML, LDAP etc.

Pretty much all of the questions about Copyright Symbols for standards that use Unicode will require the © input. however, this may differ such as for XSL as listed below. We have tried to collate what we can for you – if you can’t work out the answer from here…keep on searching – and please write to us with any information that you think would be useful on this site.

Java Script / JSP Copyright Symbol

In Java use the unicode © or © to get the copyright symbol. One common mistake is typing the © into the code, which will not work.

XML Copyright Symbol

In XML use the unicode © or © to get the copyright symbol.

XSL Copyright Symbol

If you were to use the ‘©‘ entity with XSL, you may well come across the complaint of “Reference to undefined entity ‘copy’.”

In XSL always use ©

Copyright Symbol Webpage

Here’s the basic markup

<li>
<video>...</video>
<p>...</p>
</li>

I wanted the paragraph to appear when the video is selected. So here’s the simple CSS

section#videolist li {
	position:relative;
}
section#videolist li p {
	display:none;
	position:absolute;
	bottom:-100px;
	left:0;
}
section#videolist li video:focus+p {
	display:block;
}

The sibling selector (+) is telling the browser to display the paragraph as block when its video brother has focus. This is a rough test. There could be some accessibility issues and I’ll need to test this out. Obviously this will not work in Internet Explorer.

While the video tag has been standardized, there is a lack of consensus for supporting the codecs used to package the videos for distribution and playback. Some browsers are supporting the OGV format, some support the more popular but licensed mp4 format. Others, such as Chrome, will support both. To make it even more exciting, there is a new version under development to make a truly open-sourced format: WebM.

This means your video tag needs to define multiple movie sources to make it playable on all browsers. It sounds complicated because it is. Luckily, Kroc Camen has written a great article and code pattern for adding a cross-browser video tag with fallback to Flash for the older browsers: Video for Everybody!.

The article is full of great advice from a programmer that has learned the stuff the hard way. Here’s an explanation of how you’ll need to adjust your htaccess file.

Ensure your server is using the correct mime-types. Firefox will not
play the OGG video if the mime-type is wrong. Place these lines in your .htaccess
file to send the correct mime-types to browsers

AddType video/ogg  .ogv
AddType video/mp4  .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm

Video for Everybody! – Kroc Camen

Related Resources

• HTML5 video Libraries, Toolkits and Players – Specky Boy
• JW Player: Flash Video Player – a base flash movie to use as your fallback flash movie
• html5 video fallbacks with markup – Mozilla Hacks
• Fed Flix – Repository of US Government films in various formats. These are good for testing your video markup.

BOSS Hacks is an unofficial Yahoo! BOSS Site that does exactly that. I started it last week as I noticed this site was becoming less about standards based markup and more about how I was working with Yahoo! BOSS.

This site will feature shorter, more succinct blog posts. I’ll save any large posts for the YDN blog. Please feel free to visit the site and send me notes about what you would like to see or any new BOSS-based sites that should be mentioned.

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A note of warning

You should only use this if you have a backup computer or are comfortable working with the registry. I found this out the hard way as the computer crashed while operating the standalone version of IE7. My laptop now displays very odd behavior with IE6. Another person on our team is experiencing similar behaviors. We’ll need to modify our registry tomorrow to fix this. How odd…? When you type an address in IE6, it opens firefox in a new window. It’s also ignoring conditional comments. Happy, Happy.

Now Joe is doffing his commanders uniform, I’m hoping it’s a rather smart one with sophisticated typography on the badge and non-leather jackboots. The Samarais will push, prod, and tease the WCAG into making accessibility an attainable goal.

Grab your katana.