Go Here, Watch this. Waaay cool HTML5 tricks.

[hootinholler]

Your browser needs to be pretty modern, but while researching javascript frameworks and HTML5 I ran across The Wilderness Downtown, an interactive film by Chris Milk
Featuring "We Used To Wait."

I found it very worth watching from an entertainment perspective, but also from a where people are going with web technology. Look Mom, no flash player.

ETA: It will pop a few windows. That's ok, it manages them and will clean them up.

[steve2470]

1. on a related note, test your browser on html5test.com

http://html5test.com/

[treestar]

9. I was at 319 and that film does not work for me

I can hear the music and see a little bit of film at each of several tabs but it does not play as a movie.

[Logical]

16. Thanks, nice link!

[hootinholler]

2. Gratuitous self kick n/t

[dembotoz]

3. wow

[NashvilleLefty]

4. AMAZING!

I forwarded the link to some friends. I especially loved the "drawing" interaction - and the surprise that came with it. I kinda expected the Google Street view, although it was very cool the way he incorporated it!

[hootinholler]

6. Welcome to DU

It's hard to describe it without a spoiler and you did an admirable job!

[one_voice]

5. That's pretty cool.

[a kennedy]

7. That was just A W E S O M E

am sending this on.....so cool. Thanks.

[flamingdem]

8. Thanks for this

Especially since I'm going to a workshop about html5 today!

[hootinholler]

13. I have concerns pushing the business logic out to the client.

Especially in a morphable language like javascript.

I'm working on a mobile unit data collection app and trying to wrap my head around the new paradigm.

[flamingdem]

17. Very interesting

I'd like to learn more about that. Does this have to do with who gets access to mobile analytics data? The bane of the social media marketing world since it's blocked on mobile browsers.

[hootinholler]

18. Nothing that sexy...

The contract hasn't yet been awarded, so all I can really say is that it's basically a barcode scanning mobile application tracking items at multiple points in queues. It's not packages but think UPS or FedEx delivery scanning, ruggedized units, etc.

At this point I have enough of the server side implemented that I can start thinking about what the mobile side needs to do, and how to display the queue flows on a 'dashboard' via the web. The dash is where the html5 and JS come in. I need to do some displays of queue segments and was thinking along the lines of leveraging sparklines. At first the dash will be sparse, but after the first year there will likely be 20 or more queue segments monitored in multiple queues.

[PatSeg]

10. That was amazing

Thank you.

[graywarrior]

11. Awesome!

[slackmaster]

12. That's a Hell of a thing to lay on someone with a head full of Prednisone

[hootinholler]

14. Should I edit the OP?

I can add an explicit Prednisone warning, perhaps an LSD recommendation?


I wasn't aware that Prednisone was that mind altering, but steroids do have a different edge to them.

[slackmaster]

15. It's OK. I'm generally reeling from sinus pain telegraphed into my teeth.

I enjoyed the demonstration immensely. Seeing my old home brought back floods of memories.