Form As Function » HTML5

Browser based audio experiments using a custom build of Firefox

greg — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:32:23 +0000

The thought of a JS implementation of PureData is exciting; the other examples are equally worth a look. The W3C has started the Audio Incubator Working Group as a means to begin standardization.

Video JS – an open source HTML5 video player, skinned with nothing but CSS

greg — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:52:38 +0000

Supports H.264, Theora and WebM with a fallback to the Flash based Flowplayer. If only it buffered well.

JSNES – a Nintendo NES emulator written in javascript, rendered with HTML canvas

greg — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:34:18 +0000

As Github points out, it’s worth taking a look at the CPU emulation component.

A great analysis of the current Apple / Adobe situation from The Macalope

greg — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:45:27 +0000

My favorite quote:

The Internet is an open range where anyone can compete in any way they like. But Adobe didn’t make the Internet. In fact, they tried to wall off a section of it. Apple, on the other hand, made its own walled garden with a scenic view of the Internet.

HTML5 Forms

greg — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:55:01 +0000

If you’ve been waiting to incorporate HTML5 elements into your code, perhaps forms are a good place to start today.

Look at my face. No no, MY @FACE!

greg — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:15:11 +0000

Change is afoot on the web, with HTML 5 around the corner and everyone freaking out about how it and the standards it leverages and creates will solidify. The whole thing reminds me of the first time I mixed up hydraulic cement. “Oh my gosh this is totally… I NEED MORE WATER! Quick! It’s going to… I… can’t… AH just put it in there!” Luckily the web isn’t the cement I used to plug up the hole in a brick wall that flooded my bedroom every time it rained – it’s a slow moving beast that’s guided not by kings of rule and flippant decisions (at least hopefully those are behind us) but rather committees and volunteers and a whole bunch of other thankless positions. And corporations. Okay, but lets gloss over those for the moment and assume we’re all mutually invested in this whole “progress” thing working out.

So this weekend I took another look at @font-face embedding after having let it sit for a year or so. When it was first announced we all, all of us designers, looked up from our Helvetica and Arial stupor like a stoned kid who’s just been told there’s free pizza down in the dorm lobby. “Huh? Wait, were you talking to me? There’s… woah free pizza? Alright!” and suddenly the haze lifted and we were in motion, that is until we read the fine print of “limited support across browsers” and realized we had to sign up for a credit card or calling card or some other sort of promo to get that pizza. Bummer. But here we all, almost all grow’d up and it’s starting to look halfway practical to use a custom font on the web via CSS, given due concern for embedding and licensing restrictions. What follows are a few resources regarding that concern and hopefully, by using @font-face in our own pages, we’ll slowly influence that beast of the web.