Cameron Moll's Blog, page 71

IE and HTML5 Testing, or "Apple's Hilariously Disingenous 'HTML5' Showcase"

IE and HTML5 Testing, or "Apple's Hilariously Disingenous 'HTML5' Showcase":

Bruce Lawson, Opera employee and member of The Web Standards Project:

In the 18 months I've really focussed on HTML5, I've seen approximately 238 different HTML5 'testing' sites appear. Most of them wildly pick and mix specs, checking for HTML5, related WHATWG-derived specifications such as Web Workers and then, drunk and giddy with buzzwords, throw in SVG, CORS, CSS Media Queries, and some Apple proprietary CSS...

dConstruct 2010

dConstruct 2010:

Having spoken at this conference before, I can vouch for a quality conference put on by Clearleft each year. And the design of this year's site? Stunning, fresh, and love the parallax effect as you widen/narrow your browser window.

Why I Dislike "Freelance"

Why I Dislike "Freelance":

Brian Hoff:

Make no mistake about it; running an independent business, no matter what field you are in, is extremely time consuming, exhausting and requires a lot of motivation and dedication. It's not for everyone…. If you are an in-house designer, responding to emails, answering phone calls, and marketing, among other things, are payable because you are on the clock. You get paid for the time you are under the roof of your office. The self-employeed...

World Cup iPhone Papers

World Cup iPhone Papers:

A lovely set by Phil Coffman. Related, let's just all agree here and now that Switzerland has the best home jersey of any team. Ivory Coast's away jersey is a close second.

Prefetch Content with HTML5

Prefetch Content with HTML5:

This sounds too easy. Add a line like this to your head element:

or

… and the browser fetches the content in the background as soon as the user's computer is idle. If it sounds too easy, it's probably because Firefox is currently the only browser to support this feature. But this has the potential to be a really useful feature.

Etude: "Sheet Music on Steroids"

Etude: "Sheet Music on Steroids":

I just purchased another sheet music app, forScore, only a few days ago. Etude, however, has what forScore is missing for my needs, i.e. someone who plays primarily by ear and can't read music all that well: A keyboard showing the keys needed to play the piece.

Perfect for figuring out, oh, I don't know, "Don't Stop Believin'"? (Actually, Etude has only classical pieces at the moment, with "more on the way.")

Montessorium

Montessorium:

There's something really refreshing about the design of this site. Perhaps it's the muted colors, the typography, or the textures. Whatever it is, I like the end result.

Oh, and I'm looking forward to the iPad apps, too.

Fontdeck

Fontdeck:

Another web font embedding service at your disposal, Fontdeck is now available to the public. In contrast to Typekit, Fontdeck is a piece-meal approach allowing you to select certain fonts and license those fonts annually per website.

Smokescreen: Convert Flash to HTML5/JS

Smokescreen: Convert Flash to HTML5/JS:

This is pretty slick. Retool your existing Flash files as HTML5/JavaScript via animated SVG.

/via Daring Fireball

Soulver for iPad

Soulver for iPad:

I don't own this app as I question just how much I'd really use it, but the concept is intriguing: Write equations using natural language and let the app do the calculating. Somewhat similar to WolframAlpha, I suppose.