Category: HTML5

Useful Links: Transcripts, HTML5, IE/Google, Harley, Mighty Meeting

Transcripts on the Web: Getting people to your podcasts and videos at uiAccess provides valuable resources for creating transcripts of audio and video.

My (current) opinions on HTML5 from Dori Smith is a reflection on the writhing mass of eels known as HTML5 and what has happened in that arena in the last few days. Dori has some ideas about what the lack of accord among the people working in this area may mean in future real world terms.

Microsoft admits Explorer used in Google China hack from the BBC explains what Internet Explorer 6 had to do with the recent attack on Google from Chinese hackers, and what Microsoft is doing to help fix it.

Harley unveils “Pink Label” line of merchandise makes me think maybe Harley wasn’t watching when Dell tried to come out with a line of “girly” computers.

Mighty Meeting Lets You Conduct PowerPoint Presentations from your SmartPhone. Remember, oh a couple of years back, when conferences were a sea of laptops and the speaker needed a big projector and a couple of people on hand to make sure all the computers worked with the projector? All gone.

Molly talks about browsers and more

I happily spent a couple of hours watching and listening to a lecture given at The University of Georgia by Molly Holzschlag. The lecture is part of the WaSP InterAct Curriclum web education program. Molly’s talk takes two hours, divided into 4 videos of about 30 minutes. Here’s the first of the 4 videos. Go to YouTube and listen to all 4, because she really gets into the good stuff later in the lecture. Her conclusions about the web as a disruptive technology at the very end of her talk are really powerful.

If you are teaching web development yourself, I suggest you scatter these 4 videos over 4 days and show them to your students.

Here’s a link to HTML5 Doctor, which Molly mentions. HTML5 Doctor offers a gallery, tips, answers, ideas and more for those who are working with HTML5.

Useful Links: Males vs. females, Google & HTML5, 50 Cent Lessons

Males vs. females in social media has stats, graphs, and the male to female ratio for 19 social media sites. Overall, women are in the majority but the men have yet to notice and take effective action.

What’s powering Web apps: Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] The LA Times reports that Google is dropping its Gears utility in favor of HTML5.

A big reason for not including Gears in Chrome for Mac in the interim, as we wait for HTML5 to solidify, is a technical hurdle.

The stand-alone Gears isn’t compatible with Snow Leopard, the newest version of the Mac operating system. A Google spokesman indicated earlier this month in an interview that it’s a problem with the new system, not with lazy development.

With browsers adopting HTML 5 standards as if they were already in some sort of stable recommended spec, I think the movement around HTML5 will intensify.

If you aren’t reading Copyblogger, you should be. Why? Because of articles like Four Things 50 Cent Can Teach you about Connecting with Your Audience.

Useful Links: Intro to HTML5, Univ. Web survey, paid to tweet

Introduction to HTML5, microformats and CSS3 is a screencast showing the building of a web page in HTML5.

State of the University Web Department Survey results are available at eduGuru. The survey included all sorts of interesting questions such as university size, CMS used, technology used, department size, decision makers, frequency of redesign and more.

What do you think of A Friend’s Tweet Could be an Ad? I find the idea offensive and have started to unfollow people who use their twitter stream to collect ad revenue. You may have ads on your blog, which is fine: the choice whether to read the ads is mine. But when an ad comes through your twitter stream like it’s normal content it’s no longer my choice. Web users have developed visual skills to filter past ads on web pages. There’s no visual cue on Twitter that would let you scan past a paid tweet. It’s deceptive.

Useful links: beautiful HTML, unfriend, e-expectations, Facebook gods

What beautiful HTML looks like from CSS Tricks is a PNG image. It’s a little hard to read at browser size, but I can imagine it at poster size on a classroom wall, where it would be very useful and instructive.

Oxford Word of the Year is “unfriend.”

“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year. Most “un-” prefixed words are adjectives (unacceptable, unpleasant), and there are certainly some familiar “un-” verbs (uncap, unpack), but “unfriend” is different from the norm. It assumes a verb sense of “friend” that is really not used (at least not since maybe the 17th century!). Unfriend has real lex-appeal.”

Other technology related words that Oxford considered this year include hashtag, intexticated, netbook, paywall, and sexting.

Scrolling Toward Enrollment: Web Site Content and the E-Expectations of College-Bound Seniors (pdf) uncovers the online expectations and behavior of college-bound seniors.

The Facebook Gods is a romp. You need a little Facebook humor today, don’t you?

Useful Links: Facebook in class, HTML+RDFa, Windows 7

100 Ways You Should be Using Facebook in Your Classroom has some interesting ideas scattered through the list. You might find something you can use there.

HTML+RDFa is a first draft of the W3C’s proposed mechanism for embedding RDF in HTML. Review by those interested is invited by the W3C.

That thud you hear is people dumping Vista and installing Windows 7. Here are several Windows 7 reviews:

Useful links: Internet history, professionalism, font embedding, iPods in education

Why Apple is betting on HTML 5: a web history is interesting on several levels. For an educator teaching an overview of the Internet or a history of the web class, the article is one that could be helpful and useful in the classroom. For web developers interested in HTML5, this article looks at support for the specification from the point of view of industry—browser makers and software developers. It talks about why various industry leaders are supporting HTML5 and what that means to the implementation of the spec, which is currently in the working draft stage.

The State of the Web Profession isn’t really about the state of the web profession. It’s more of a plea to web developers to act professionally.

Roundup of Font Embedding and Replacement Techniques is an excellent resource for someone who wants to know all about font embedding and needs a good list of places to get educated.

What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod Touch each is fascinating. Be sure to scroll down and watch the film.