HTML 5 Super Friends
My buddies and I express our support for HTML5 ...with caveats ...and unicorns.
Link archive: August, 2009
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
The HTML5 Semantics Debate - Opinions - MIX Online
A thoughtful piece on the question of extensibility in HTML5.
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
three frames
There is something utterly hypnotic and disturbing about these three-frame looping animations.
Read Regular / Introduction
A forthcoming typeface designed specifically to help people with dyslexia read and write more effectively.
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
All Sorts - a linguistic experiment
Collective nouns, collected.
LAZEROIDS!
Asteroids implemented using HTML5's canvas.
Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting? - O'Reilly Radar
Simon St. Laurent explains why mobile support for HTML5 mitigates Microsoft's dominance of desktop web browsing.
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Whatcha Readin' For? - Handy TextMate tips for working with HTML & CSS
Some very handy Textmate tips from Emil ....especially the bit about doing calculations for vertical rhythm.
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Webmaster Tools - Rich Snippets Testing Tool
A tool from Google to help you see how your microformated content is showing up.
The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
A great article about the rising prevalence of "rough consensus and running code" in the real world.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Biscuit Tin - Random is good.
The iPhone App of Magnetic North's wonderful serendipitous Flickr photo viewer is now available for free. It's lovely.
ephemera assemblyman: Film Poster Paintings from Ghana
A wonderful set of folk-art movie posters from mobile cinemas in Ghana.
New co-chairs for HTML Working Group from Tim Berners-Lee on 2009-08-26 (public-html@w3.org from August 2009)
Maciej Stachowiak is an inspired choice as co-chair of the HTMLWG. His evenhand peace-making has already made him an HTML5 hero.
Erik Spiekermann | design mind
Erik Spiekermann expounding on the beauty – and the difficulty – of designing numbers.
HTML 5–What I’m Watching at Wendy Chisholm
Wendy gives some commentary from her ringside seat at the theatre of HTML5.
AverageCats- Your cat is average.
Debunking LOLcats.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Health care and the public’s resistance to change : The New Yorker
James Surowiecki explains how loss aversion is affecting the health care "debate" in the USA.
The Value Class Pattern - Articles - MIX Online
A microformats article by yours truly, reworking a blog post from a while back about the value class pattern.
Make Photoshop Faster
Two little tips courtesy of Dan.
HTML 5 Outliner
A very handy tool to help you check the outline algorithm in HTML5.
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces
Like Wikipedia for typefaces. Beautiful work from Jason, Dan, and others.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects - visualized!
A blog devoted to data visualisation.
Goudy Fonts
"A tribute to two former bookkeepers who impacted American design & typography for all time."
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Amazon® AWS HMAC signed request using PHP
Since Amazon decided to require signed requests for its API, I'm going to have to use this code to keep Huffduffer and The Session working. Grrrr... cool APIs don't change.
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
JSConf.eu - The JavaScript Conference
A two day JavaScript conference in Berlin in November. Looks like it could be very good (although it'll have to be very good indeed to top the Full Frontal conference, also in November).
By Popular Demand, We’re Keeping the Term Extraction Service (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Good news, everyone. Yahoo aren't shutting down the term extractor API. Happy developer is happy. Now if only they save GeoCities...
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Dive Into HTML 5
Watch this space for Mark Pilgrim's dive excursions into HTML5.
BallDroppings
Brendan Dawes pointed me to this wonderfully playful creation. It's Flash-free, believe it or not.
Radio - The New York Moon
Gorgeous visual design for an interestingly eclectic site.
Monday, August 17th, 2009
This Is The Only Level | Armor Games
Fiendishly clever and joyful platform game ...and it only has only level.
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Leaving
A cute and poignant resignation letter ...in video game form.
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
“Misunderstanding Markup” 日本語訳
Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Probably Bad News: News fails, because journalism isn't dying fast enough.
Enjoyable schadenfreude with journalistic boo-boos.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
yws-search-general : Message: Term Extraction and Contextual Web Search services to be discontinued
Crap. The very powerful term extractor API from Yahoo is being closed down. Sad developer is sad.
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
I HATE MY PARENTS
These kids hate what is being done to them ...and one day they will get their revenge.
Friday, August 7th, 2009
The Font-as-Service | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
Elliot gives a rundown of the font delivery services for the web that are on the way.
Ex Nihilo
Dave has been experimenting with processing and documenting the results here.
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Chroma-Hash Demo
Another interesting take on assigning a visual clue to password fields.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Building Rome in a Day
Unbelievable 3D visualisation created by extracting common points from millions of pictures on Flickr of Rome, Venice and Dubrovnik. As Matt Haughey would say, "Holy shitballs!"
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Will my site be archived? Yahoo! GeoCities Help
Archive.org is indexing Geocities sites (as it always has). Yahoo are going to fuck all about their users data/dreams/memories and Yahoo are going to do fuck all about the URLs.
HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment
A very pretty little Twitter canvas experiment accompanied by music delivered via the audio element. View this in a capable browser.
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Huffduffer :: Add-ons for Firefox
Thanks to the brilliant Glenn Jones, there is now a Firefox plug-in for Huffduffer. Right-click on a link to an audio file and select "Huffduff it" and you will get the pre-filled Huffduffer form in a pop-up window.
Cartagen
Lovely representation of OpenStreetMap data using canvas.
Contact Us « Kellan Studios
Nice Huffduffer-style contact form.
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Let's make the web faster - Google Code
A whole heap of optimisation techniques from Google for faster CSS, JavaScript, markup and PHP.
Play MoneySeize, a free online game on Kongregate
Utterly addictive platform game.