Articles for June 16th, 2009
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an update on open video codecs and quality
Two days ago we posted a comparison by Greg Maxwell of low and medium resolution YouTube videos vs. Theora counterparts at the same bit rates. The result in that test was that Theora did much better at the low bit rate and more or less the same at the slightly higher bit rate. The conclusion […]
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audio player – HTML5 style
Last week we featured a demo from Alistair MacDonald (@F1LT3R) where he showed how to animate SVG with Canvas and a bunch of free tools. This week he has another demo for us that shows how you can use the new audio element in Firefox 3.5 with some canvas and JS to build a nice-looking […]
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better security and performance with native JSON
The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) mechanism for representing data has rapidly become an indispensable part of the web developer’s toolkit, allowing JavaScript applications to obtain and parse data intuitively, within scripts, with lightweight data encapsulation. Firefox 3.5 includes support for JSON natively by exposing a new primitive — window.JSON — to the top level object. […]
