Articles tagged “html5”
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Announcing the December Dev Derby Winners
IndexedDB lets web applications store structured data for fast online and offline use. Data can be stored using key-value pairs, and values do not need to be serialized (as they do with document-oriented databases) or coerced into a relational structure (as with relational databases). Recently, creative developers from around the world demonstrated just how powerful […]
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Hidden Gems of HTML5: classList
If you are a web developer, you surely must know how handy it is to dynamically change the class attribute on an element. The benefits this technique are quite a few: You leave any changes in the look and feel to the CSS You avoid having to loop lots of elements as you can allow […]
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People of HTML5: Joe Lambert unshredding images in Canvas
Today we have a quickie for you: Joe Lambert, a web developer from Southampton, England working for Rareloop took on the Instagram engineering challenge of un-shredding a shredded image but instead of using server-side code, he used HTML5 canvas. Here’s a screencast of his solution to the problem: And here we are in a quick […]
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People of HTML5: Mr. Doob
HTML5 needs spokespeople to work. There are a lot of people out there who took on this role, and here at Mozilla we thought it is a good idea to introduce some of them to you with a series of interviews and short videos. The format is simple – we send the experts 10 questions […]
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HTML5 Battles still to be won – a talk at Open Web Camp III
Last Saturday was the Open Web Camp at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Around 300 developers, designers and project managers signed up to hear up-to-date information about web technologies, accessibility and design. The event was free and, although it started very early for Silicon Valley standards, very well attended. Mozilla’s contribution (other than being a […]
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Lights, Camera, Action! July Dev Derby is all about HTML5 Video!
Show off your coolest video hack in July’s Mozilla Dev Derby! Moving pictures have always fascinated people. From the first zoetropes to the multi million dollar blockbusters of today – seeing things move grabs our attention as humans much better than any clever copy or imagery could. Video was alien to the web for a […]
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HTML5 and the web of tomorrow – live from Web2Day in Nantes, France
I am currently here in Nantes, France at the Web2Day conference giving a talk on the topic of HTML5 and how it affects the audience (consisting of business people, startups, managers and a few developers. The slides of the talk are available Slideshare: The talk was streamed live via UStream and the recording is available […]
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Multimedia on the web and using HTML5 sensibly
Last week I went to the London Ajax User Meetup in London, England to deliver two talks about HTML5. One was a re-run of a talk I gave at MIT about Multimedia on the web and the second was a call to arms to use HTML5 sensibly. You can go over to Skillsmatter web site […]
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HTML5 at FOSDEM2011 – Oven Fresh Web Tech means Kernel folk
I just returned from my first ever FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium – a hard-core open source conference with more Linux Distros and amazing open source software packages being showcased that I could take in (although this might also be because of the fact that the conference served beer all day). The free conference attracts […]
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Simple HTML5 video encoding with vid.ly – interview, first impressions and invite code
Today encoding.com released a new service called vid.ly which is not yet another URL shortener, but actually a very impressive service for converting video. One of the biggest annoyance of using HTML5 video is to convert your movie to various formats supported by different browsers. Vid.ly does this job for you: it converts the video […]