Google, Mozilla and Opera develop open source video codec
Google, Mozilla and Opera have joined foreces in a new high-quality, open video format that could end the ongoing debate about the video support in HTML 5: the WebM Project.
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15 Useful HTML5 Tutorials and Cheat Sheets
Henry Jones makes a great selection of useful HTML5 tutorials and cheat sheets for WDL.
The Future of the Web: HTML5
Derek Bender shares “The Future of the Web: HTML5“, a great looking presentation with an overview about HTML 5.
Facebook videos switch to HTML5
Facebook has begun switching some of its videos to HTML 5, allowing playback on Apple and other mobile devices.
Experiments with canvas
Ben Joffe shares some cool experiments with HTML 5 using the canvas element.
HTML5 port of Quake II game engine
Wow! A group of googlers developed a HTML 5 based port of id Software‘s Quake II. So, we can play Quake II in a common web browser (well, just Safari and Chrome for now) without any plug-ins. You can read about the project on Google Web Toolkit Blog, watch a demo on YouTube or get the code on the project page on Google Code.
Client-side databases using HTML5
Web SQL Database is a set of APIs created to manipulate client-side databases using SQL. Since the databases are stored on the user’s browser, this could allow web applications to work online and off-line. You can see a complete usage example of Web SQL Databases created by html5rocks.
Sketchpad: Online drawing using HTML 5
Sketchpad is a cool HTML 5 application to create drawings online. It has all the features you can expect on a standard desktop app directly from your (modern) browser and a great looking design.
Sublime: HTML5 video player
SublimeVideo is a great looking HTML 5 video player that allows video embedding without the need of browser plugins (of course your visitors will need a modern browser). The player is just a “pre-release demo” for now, but most of its features are already working. You can check the demo and read more in the developer’s blog.
YouTube introduces HTML5 powered videos
YouTube announced today that they are introducing an experimental version of an HTML5-supported video player.
The player has some limitations: It doesn’t support videos with ads, captions, or annotations and only works in browsers that support both the video tag and h.264 encoding (Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer using ChromeFrame).
To try it out, go to the HTML5 page via TestTube or visit this page and join the HTML5 Beta.