Some really cool demos were presented at the HTML5 Community Night event at Microsoft on April 26th 2011. Here are a smattering of the links to the demos. gameClosure Cross-platform multi-player games built using HTML5. Supports browsers as well as iPhone and Android. PowWow PowWow : A HTML5-based multiplayer game showing off WebSockets and WebGL. Vision Explorer VisionExplorer – 3D exploration of the National Museum of China. Built with JavaScript. Pacman Classic Pac-Man extended to a multi-grid Pac-Man. Built again with JavaScript. SVG Girl SVG Girl : a Japanese anime “video” implemented completely in SVG! CSS3 GRID SYSTEM IE9’s Grid System in CSS. There were many other demos but these were the URLs that I managed to snag during the presentation. Will update my post if I find links to the other demos.
Happy Pi Day! One of the readers of the blog, Lauren Jackson, discovered my post from 2008 on Pi Day and sent in an interesting info-graphic on Pi: check out Visualizing Pi .
This is a map drawn by Charles Joseph Minard depicting the losses suffered by Napolean’s army in the Russian invasion of 1912. It depicts several variables – size of the army, 2D location, direction of army’s movement and temperature on various days. It is considered one of the best statistical graphs ever drawn. Amazing!
Safari on the iPhone OS 4.0 does much better than most browsers on the HTML5Test with a net score of 134/160. Here’s the breakup of the test results with the failures: Doctype – 4/4 Canvas – 12/12 Video – 25/30 Ogg Theora codec support - No Audio – 22/24 Ogg Vorbis codec support - No Geolocation 5/5 Storage – 8/8 Offline Web Application – 11/11 Workers – 0/6 Web Workers - No Section elements – 7/7 Grouping content elements – 2/2 Text-level semantic elements – 4/5 time element - No Forms – 22/27 autocomplete input attribute – No keygen element – No output element – No progress element – No meter element - No User Interaction – 12/19 hidden attribute – No Undo manager - No
Safari on iPhone OS 4.0 (build 8A230m) supports WebSocket. Here’s the output from the WebSocket test : Yes, the browser still reports OS 3_1_2 even though the OS is really 4.0. The AppleWebKit version is newer than the iPad. I was able to run a WebSocket test against Kaazing’s WebSocket Gateway .