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Jul 27 / 10:45pm

Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time, so a palette of selected colors was used. But the programmer could change this palette at will, and all the onscreen colors would instantly change to match. It was fast, and took virtually no memory. Thus began the era of color cycling.
more on effectgames.com

1990's techniques make their way back with HTML5 and mobile devices.

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Jul 3 / 12:29am

Flash and the HTML5 tag

HD video begs to be watched in full screen, but that has not historically been possible with pure HTML
more on apiblog.youtube.com

YouTube's stance on Flash vs HTML5 <video>. No surprise there: Flash is still the only viable option now. But the article itself is worth reading as it provides pragmatic rationale why web standards are not there yet.

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May 15 / 9:40pm

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: We’re Going To Make The Best Tools In The World For HTML5

Q: How is Adobe going to react to HTML5?
A: I wouldn’t say reacting to HTML5. We see whatever people are using to express themselves. … We’re going to make great tooling for HTML5. We’re going to make the best tools in the world for HTML 5.
more on techcrunch.com

I'm looking forward.

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Feb 1 / 9:37pm

The best way for Adobe to save Flash is by killing it - Uncompiled Thoughts

In my opinion, the best way for Adobe to save Flash (the development and authoring environment) is by killing Flash (the plugin), and targeting a HTML5 runtime directly.

Flash CS4 is one of the best authoring environments for designers and illustrators to easily create and animate rich, graphical media on the web. No, it is *the* best. Being able to easily import vector artwork from Illustrator, drag and drop PNGs around, resize things and manipulate them in a WYSIWYG editor, without mucking around in the world of HTML/CSS/Javascript?

more on stevenwei.com

Not that I believe that authoring CSS, HTML and JS is easy on a technical level, or that Adobe is likely to give up the advantage of control over its proprietary formats. But maybe that's not such a bad idea, after all.

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Jan 23 / 5:06pm

Video, Freedom And Mozilla

So why doesn't Mozilla just license H.264 (like everybody else)? One big reason is that that would violate principles of free software that we strongly believe in. In particular, we believe that downstream recipients of our code should be able to modify and redistribute it without losing any functionality. This is freedom that copyleft licenses such as the GPL and LGPL (which we use for our code) are intended to ensure. It is possible to obtain patent licenses in a way which works around the letter of the GPLv2 and LGPLv2, but honoring the letter while violating the spirit is not a game we are interested in playing.
more on weblogs.mozillazine.org

An explanation why new HTML5-based YouTube and Vimeo don't work in Firefox.

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