Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Impasse on HTML 5 video

V7: Video Killed the Web Browser Star | Rob Weychert

Grrr… it turns out that browsers exhibit some very frustrating behaviour when it comes to the video element. Rob has the details…

Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025 - YouTube

A great talk by Matthias on what you can do with web standards today!

Jeremy Keith – Of Time And The Web – border:none 2023 - YouTube

Here’s the video of the talk I gave in Nuremberg recently.

Speakers | State of the Browser 2021

All the talks from this year’s State Of The Browser event are online, and they’re all worth watching.

I laughed out loud at multiple points during Heydon’s talk.

Bruce Lawson’s personal site  : Eulogy for Flash

Web developers aren’t going to shed many tears for Flash, but as Bruce rightly points out, it led the way for many standards that followed. Flash was the kick up the arse that the web needed.

He also brings up this very important question:

I’m also nervous; one of the central tenets of HTML is to be backwards-compatible and not to break the web. It would be a huge loss if millions of Flash movies become unplayable. How can we preserve this part of our digital heritage?

This is true of the extinction of any format. Perhaps this is an opportunity for us to tackle this problem head on.