The Wilderness Downtown is a project created by writer/director Chris Milk with the band Arcade Fire and Google. The project was built around the song “We Used to Wait”, giving each user a personalized experience using HTML5 and integrating online tools like Google Maps.
Hakim El Hattab, an interactive developer from Sweden, has created some really great HTML 5 experiments using javascript, the canvas element and some physics.
Ben Joffe shares some cool experiments with HTML 5 using the canvas element.
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.
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.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/5810449[/vimeo]
Bruce Lawson, open web standards evangelist
from Opera, talks at O’Reilly’s OSCON 2009 conference about HTML 5: how it works in the real world and what works and what doesn’t in current browsers.