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2010
July
June
- minimize/close to system tray in Python GTK
- A markdown editor/viewer in Python
- Red Phone Mumble Test
- Saturday Sassafrass
- A Friday Frolic
- Toshiba laptop review
May
- Google no longer uses Microsoft
- regarding Heybuddy and python stuff
- I'm calling you!
- heybuddy identi.ca client
- making a change holder thing
- Did I win? Yes and No.
- photograph sticker
April
- share this on facebook
- the damn computer died
- kilt alteration
- audcast streamer in vala with gstreamer, gtk and webkit
March
- The Mullet Adventure
- A Letter to the California State Legislature
- will dogfooding the frenzy leave me bitter?
- basic sitemap file maker in Python
- rock and rolling down the street
February
January
2009
December
- Time to Celebrate
- game of life : Vala, SDL
- game of life : python, clutter
- networked timed text-to-speech goodness
- battery status in a screen session
- Bright Bike
- turning gears
November
- incremental screenshot namer wrapper
- a nice little feature/bug
- drawing circles
- broken VHS fixed
- cloudy phone number finder
October
- network quitter fixer
- the hot sauce experiment
- non-delivered emails sent to AOL domains
- GIMP mathmap experiment results
- tri-force tuna gift
September
- leave early, take your time, enjoy the solitude
- N37°49'8 W122°28'48
- rotary phone computer interface in action
- python script to play the latest version of an audio broadcast
August
- rotary phone computer input device
- server log spam from Microsoft?
- creating a CAPTCHA
- hello HTML 5, it's nice to meet you
July
- How does that increase security?
- getting familiar with GWT, a porting experiment.
- You're Not Carnival Personnel!
- "disable" a web app's buttons using javascript and css
- litterbugs and jaywalkers
June
- a basic web-app with pyjamas
- shell script to aid in compiling Vala projects
- Banjo part 4: she's finished
- Accent Characters in Linux with Xorg
- Terminal emulator part deux!
May
- Community
- Terminal Emulator in Vala using GTK and VTE
- Where is the MPAA on this one?
- pyclutter stage fullscreen hack
- Banjo part 3
April
March
- from necessity comes something
- If you build it, they will spam
- writing blogging software ( using data from blogspot )
February
January
2008
December
- From WBEZ Chicago......
- Simple Switch Input to Enter a Command
- perplexing ponderence, pertaining penguin presents
November
- baby steps: the evolution my feature-free PHP framework
- ruining a perfectly good lamp?
- thank you bazaar
- quick not-so-little bikey bag
- Vala musings : int to string, packages, and starting with main
October
September
- my motor vehicle warranty is about to expire? really?
- Bike Trailer Part 2
- getting dandy with a hair pretty
- a not so elegant fixer up
August
June
May
- use python and gstreamer to get the tags of an audio file
- trials with gstreamer, pygst, and goom visualization
- Gaarrrrrrrrr!
- more pyclutter: get a move on - behaviourpath
- scrollwheel css div Internet Explorer 7 problem fixed
- Hello World using pyclutter - a half assed tutorial
April
2009-08-07
I've been fairly excited about the "audio" and "video" tags in the upcoming HTML5. Yes, I said excited.
Currently, to play and control audio on a webpage, one needs to use a browser plugin to control the audio. For the most part, this means the flash player. Oh flash, how I loath thee; thou art buggy and sucketh mine resources. Visiting a web page with multiple instances of embedded flash can bring my browser to crashing halt. Fortunately, the future looks illuminated. Although I was tempted to say the future looks bright, Apple has clouded the sun and dimmed things a bit. Oh well, I'm still happy because in the specification for the new HTML 5 standard is a tag for including an audio file directly in a web page.
Instead of having a few unreadable lines of code to embed a flash player in a page and thus requiring the end user to have the flash plugin installed, one will only need a simple line of code such as
Fortunately, the fun doesn't stop there. Since the audio or video is now a part of the web page, the media can be accessed and manipulated through javascript. This will allow developers to create fancy web based audio and video players that use nothing more that JavaScript, HTML and CSS. To illuminate what I mean, I've created a very simple HTML 5 audio player example. Since the HTML 5 standard has yet to be finalized and few browsers comply with the coming specification, the example will probably only work properly with Firefox 3.5.
Thank You HTML 5; I look forward to an internet with much less Flash and much more functionality.
Currently, to play and control audio on a webpage, one needs to use a browser plugin to control the audio. For the most part, this means the flash player. Oh flash, how I loath thee; thou art buggy and sucketh mine resources. Visiting a web page with multiple instances of embedded flash can bring my browser to crashing halt. Fortunately, the future looks illuminated. Although I was tempted to say the future looks bright, Apple has clouded the sun and dimmed things a bit. Oh well, I'm still happy because in the specification for the new HTML 5 standard is a tag for including an audio file directly in a web page.
Instead of having a few unreadable lines of code to embed a flash player in a page and thus requiring the end user to have the flash plugin installed, one will only need a simple line of code such as
Oh happy day!<audio src="path/to/audio/file"controls="true"></audio>
Fortunately, the fun doesn't stop there. Since the audio or video is now a part of the web page, the media can be accessed and manipulated through javascript. This will allow developers to create fancy web based audio and video players that use nothing more that JavaScript, HTML and CSS. To illuminate what I mean, I've created a very simple HTML 5 audio player example. Since the HTML 5 standard has yet to be finalized and few browsers comply with the coming specification, the example will probably only work properly with Firefox 3.5.
Thank You HTML 5; I look forward to an internet with much less Flash and much more functionality.
I can't wait until HTML 5 gains enough of a foothold to start being involved in the majority of the web. It gives us so many more options, so much leeway, with what we're able to do in the browser with Free technologies and standardized code.
I'm betting that the browsers that support all of HTML 5, like Firefox and (possibly) Opera for example, will see their market share rise as well. When cool web apps hit the stage that take advantage of the advances in HTML 5, it might be the final push people need to upgrade.