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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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HTML5 Canvas Experiment

The guys at 9elements created a stunning little experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen. You can see it in action or read more about it in their blog.

Audio player with javascript & HTML 5

jPlayer is a great idea that takes advantage of the audio tag in HTML 5 to create an extremely customizable (just HTML and CSS) audio player using jQuery. You can get some ideas by looking at the demos.

Javascript manipulation of the audio tag

The audio tag in HTML 5 allows us to insert a sound or audio stream on our sites without the need of a proprietary plugin like Flash.

There’s still little information regarding the use of the audio and video tags, but Cedric Dougas shows us some examples to manipulate audio in HTML 5 using javascript.