Since the two dozen 'HTML tags' were first proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee back in 1991 the web has come a long way. Now the latest iteration of the language, combined with the latest browsers opens up a raft of new possibilities.
Since we moved in to our lovely new offices at Diespeker Wharf at the end of last year I’ve been taking advantage of our roof terrace - sadly I’m a smoker. Whilst blackening my lungs I started taking photographs (using Instagram) of view down the canal, for no particular reason other than the view being splendid (and a smattering of boredom!).
Though embedded in their standard XHTML 1 template Nissan have dropped the use of Flash in favour a rich canvas based experience to promote the Nissan Leaf, their new electric car.
An HTML 5 pool game with a secret agent twist.
I recently wrote a post about HTML 5 and whether it was ready to use -- surmising that it certainly was and that we in fact built our new site using HTML 5 and associated technologies. When using the latest development techniques you still have to take into account older browsers, making sure that your code works in an acceptable manner for all of your target audience.
There are two common practices when trying to achieve this: graceful degradation and progressive enhancement:-
Philippe Le Hegaret, an official with the World Wide Web Consortiumn (W3C) responsible for SVG and HTML specifications, has told InfoWorld:
The problem we’re facing right now is there is already a lot of excitement for HTML 5, but it’s a little too early to deploy it because we’re running into interoperability issues
Apparently the crux of the issue is getting HTML 5 to behave the same in different browsers and using different video devices. Now forgive me if I’m wrong but hasn’t that always been the case with HTML?! He goes on to say that the HTML 5 specification may not be "feature-complete" until mid 2011.
Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.
The Lean Start-up was coined by Eric Ries to describe new trends in the start-up landscape as a combination of the use of open-source software, agile development methodologies and ferocious, customer-centric, rapid iteration. This signal explores the value of the approach, how we apply it to our work and how it can form a new philosophy for product development for agencies.
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