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author: ''
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date: 2009/12/03 10:44
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slug: BB852
tags: open source, programming, pyqt, python, qt, urssus
title: I knew not doing it was smarter, or how HTML5 and Qt do my work for me.
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updated: 2009/12/03 10:44
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I wrote a while ago a RSS program called uRSSus_. I expect I am the only user of it because it has some problems (all of them my fault ;-) but *I* really like it.

For a while now I have wanted it to have podcast support. The thing is... that always seemed like a lot of work. Sure, using phonon I can create an audio player and everything, but... 

I am using a HTML widget to display the posts, so I would have to find a way to add the audio player to the UI and ... too much work.

So, today I woke up and thought... wait a minute... Qt's HTML widget is based on Webkit. And Webkit supports HTML5. And HTML5 has an "audio" tag.

So, if I fixed uRSSus_ to fetch the enclosure links, and added them in the database, and then added this to the post template::

  <?py for enclosure in  post.enclosures: ?>
    <audio autobuffer="Yes" controls="controls" src=#{enclosure.href}></audio><br>
  <?py #end ?>

Wouldn't that actually work? Well, yeah!

.. raw:: html

   <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralsina/4155618596/" title="urssus26 by ralsina_2000, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2758/4155618596_78221e8cb7_o.png" width="811" height="502" alt="urssus26"></a>

So there you have it, I was right not to implement it, because the easiest way is to let Qt do it ;-)

.. _urssus: http://urssus.googlecode.com