Thursday, January 26, 2012
Video for Everybody! “Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to Flash automatically without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many browsers and platforms.” [...]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Two announcements from the W3C relating to accessibility are important news today. The first is a couple of new notes relating to WCAG 2.0. You can find links to the relevant documents here. The other announcement is the first draft of the Media Accessibility User Requirements. The W3C description of the media requirements document: “It [...]
Controlling width with CSS3 box-sizing at 456 Berea Street explains how to use box-sizing to lay out a small form. Waste Chicken Feathers Make Durable Biodegradable Plastic. A science experiment from grade school days that I remember is that the aroma of burning hair or burning chicken feathers was an indicator that there was protein [...]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should be Industry Standard at Wired expresses some of the thoughts I’ve been having about WikiLeaks. The thing that bothers me the most is not how tech companies are responding to government pressure about the site, but the fact that the pressure is being applied in the first place. Google [...]
In the if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em category, Adobe announces the HTML5 Video Player widget with this message: “Adobe has released an easy-to-use, totally CSS-customizable solution that shifts gracefully from the HTML5 <video> tag to the Flash Player when the tag is not supported.” The widget works with or without Dreamweaver CS5. Introduction [...]
Thursday, October 21, 2010
100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers may give you some helpful resources. Apple’s “Back to the Mac” Event: All the Announcements at Mashable is a nice summary of recent announcements. No more CD slot – time to flip a switch in your brain to flash drive for everything. Tracking the Companies that Track You [...]
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Does Your Campus Security Have a Place in Social Media? is from eduGuru. Based on yesterday’s incident at UT, we have come a long way since the shooting at Virginia Tech in terms of response and communication with students and faculty. See Thoughts on HighEdWebDev for info on the Virginia Tech story. The web is [...]
Monday, September 27, 2010
Here’s an Xtranormal video by patob2000 that is a chat between Personal Learning Environment ( PLE ) and Learning Management System ( LMS ). Which character are you? Helpful Blogging Links: How Can I Move My TypePad Blog to WordPress has resources for those who are wondering what to do now that TypePad has sold. [...]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Well, okay, maybe three videos. Two serious, one for fun. The first serious one is Carrie James reporting on her research showing that young people do not use ethical thinking when on the Web. It’s via Mashable and takes 12 minutes. Watch live streaming video from mashable at livestream.com The second serious one is from [...]
Good news for HTML5 Video is about H.264. Movies. Now YouTube is offering instant movie downloads, and there’s an app for watching movies from Netflix on your phone. 5 Myths About Philadelphia’s ‘Blogging Tax’. The Philadelphia tax came up in a discussion in the comments on this post, so I thought it bore mention here.
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