> 1. How to get the video page to play a local file:// video/movie Assuming that you are running this as an html file in a directory (not hosted, either remotely or through a local server), have you tried just using relative paths instead of "file:///" absolute ones? You could always try a symlink to your movie directory if it's not stored in the same place as your html file, though I'm not sure if this would work without a server. You could also run a minimalist server. This would be the foolproof way to ensure relative file paths work with symlinks. > 2. How to store the data for all the movie posters, in a way that is > accessible on all the html pages. I know html5 introduced ways for javascript to store information within a database in the web browser, though I haven't played around with this too much. -Max