Hello All. Just a quick post here to let you know I have started the transition of the Sherrard Brothers Blog away from flash video and shockwave slide shows to HTML5 compliant pictures and video. Those of you with an iPad should soon be able to see all the content (slide shows first, video to follow). If I do it right everything will work as it always has or better, but it is a bit more complicated on my end. Please let me know if something doesn’t work right (matt@sherrardweb.com), so I can fix it. Thanks.

UPDATE: Dec. 10, 2011 I have been working on an html 5 video most of the day. It now seems to be working in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Internet Explorer still is a no go. Can’t explain why yet.

UPDATE: Dec. 10, 2011 Late in evening now. Still no love in IE 9. Video seems to work fine in other 3 major browsers.

UPDATE: Dec. 10, 2011 Very late now. Think I may have finally figured it out. Those of you with iPad and using IE 9 test out the Christmas Program #1 post and see if you can see the video. Let me know if it doesn’t work. Probably still not going to work with IE 8 or earlier, but I can’t test those tonight.

Please forgive the various effects and transitions. I am doing a bit of multitasking…learning iMovie and putting out video for you all to see at the same time.

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This video was taken in an attempt to get a good picture of the boys for our Christmas card. So Lindsay is trying to get them together and smiling for the camera…only somewhat successfully.

A few pictures of Jack in the first of two Christmas Programs, and the boys helping Mama make cookies.

I took this video just to give you all an accurate sense of what it is really like to attend a Preschool Thanksgiving Party with 19 four-year-olds, their various younger siblings. To get the full effect you should really put on headphones and turn the volume on the video up as loud as it will go. This video was taken after all the cookies and juice boxes had been eaten and before they were thrown up again… yes I was on clean up duty, but no my boys were not the sick ones… I’ll spare you any additional details.

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