A transmission from the deep south.
You must check out this completely awesome exploration of what’s possible with modern web typography, with installations by Frank Chimero, Jason Santa Maria, and Naz Hamid.
The project (codenamed Operation Condor) was unveiled today as Lost World’s Fairs, to celebrate the release of IE9 and its support for WOFF webfonts (pity about the rest). It’s a tour de force of texture, colour and bravura web technique. Hat’s off.
HTML5 video player with fallback support for IE and Opera. Image-free interface, skinnable via CSS, works with iPhone OS and supports H.264, Ogg Theora and WebM. No native full-screen playback, but I suspect that’s a browser API problem that will eventually be solved. (via John Ballinger)
Neven Mrgan’s new blog:
My goal is to collect examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. It’s an itch I need scratched for myself, and something I expect others will find useful too.
Mark Pilgrim’s thorough investigation of HTML5’s <video> element provides a huge amount of general background about codecs and containers, plus useful hands-on direction for implementing cross-browser video in a standards-compatible manner, with fallbacks for Internet Explorer. There’s still no single container/codec combination that works for every platform, but Mark’s two-file solution is a good compromise. Contains some fascinating detail on the future of H.264 licensing as well. (via John Gruber)
Useful tips from Paul Irish.
Jina Bolton updates Sushi & Robots. Exquisite right down to the strict baseline typography grid. (via Chris Bowler)
Jeffrey Zeldman and friends with a guide to the major niggles and inconsistencies in the HTML5 specification. Lots of valuable clarification, common sense and good suggestions here people. Plus there’s a unicorn at the bottom.
By not supporting the practical format, Mozilla isn’t making a brave statement or taking a stand: they’re just keeping everyone on Flash and preventing meaningful adoption of HTML 5’s
<video>element.
— Marco Arment’s take on the new <video> element is, as always, on the money. The best way to support everyone for the foreseeable future is still H.264 in Flash for the majority, falling back to a raw H.264 file via an <embed> element for non-Flash devices such as the iPhone.
An entertaining bookmarklet by Elbert Filius to break even the most hardened of standards-compliant websites. (via Elliott Kember)
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