Sometimes I get an idea and I just have to see it through to a point where it will let my brain go. At work Thursday we were all slobbering over Steve’s iPad and someone brought up how cool the Marvel app is. I had to admit it was much nicer than any piece of software I’d used for viewing comics before on my laptop.
In the meantime, I’ve been carefully watching WebKit creep closer and closer to implementing the W3C File API (Go Kinuko!). Something I’ve been eagerly waiting for more browsers to do so you can open up local files in SVG-edit.
I came across the MIX 10k Coding Challenge on the weekend, and on a whim I decided to submit one of my old SVG demos to the contest. The 10k challenge’s tagline is “What could you create for the Web if you had only 10 kilobytes of code?”. The rules didn’t explicitly say I could use pure SVG, they mention SVG/Canvas in the context of HTML5 only, but I thought I’d give it a shot. It’s in the spirit of the contest, after all. At the very least it would encourage Microsoft to clarify the rules and at the very best it would be accepted and the rules updated to allow pure SVG applications. Looks like it was my lucky day. Read the rest of this entry …
Sam Ruby has just been appointed co-chair of the HTML5 Working Group. In addition to being an early adopter of HTML5, Sam has been a loud proponent of distributed extensibility within HTML and a vocalcritic of the entire HTML5 process in general. I’m glad to see Sam is putting his money where his mouth is. It will be very interesting to see how this will affect the dynamics of the Working Group.
A warm congratulations to Sam and a heartfelt Good Luck!