Here’s my post for the 25th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which still covers most of my feelings about that machine. 30 years is a ridiculously long time in our fast-moving age. But I still remember the tactile experience of typing long Basic listings into the little rubber keyboard of my 16k Spectrum. I [...]
Thirty years ago today, the ZX81 home computer was launched in the UK. Nobody could have even guessed what an avalanche this little machine would produce – within a few years, every teenager in Europe would be playing computer games… The ZX81 can easily be credited as the milestone that launched the computer revolution in [...]
Unfortunately I couldn’t go, but it looks like the Audio Data API presentation at the Mozilla Summit 2010 in Vancouver was a big success. Here are two videos of David Humphrey’s presentation on the state of the Audio Data API (same content but different angle): What blew me away when I saw the video is [...]
It’s probably some sort of sign of a new phase in the JavaScript life cycle – dealing with binary data. For the longest time there wasn’t much of a reason to worry about binary files – JavaScript was near exclusively used for text operations and simple number crunching. A multidimensional array maybe. Some objects and [...]
My Spectrum Visualizer has made quite some waves across the blogosphere and it’s been a lot of fun to check out the considerable traffic to the Stories In Flight server. Of all the writeups I’ve found, here is the one I’ll use for my resume: OK this must be the bleedingest-edge project I’ve seen in [...]
The HTML Working Group at the W3C has published a full set of Working Drafts for the specification of HTML5. This is another important step to move HTML5 and its associated technologies closer to become an “official” standard and will certainly speed up the implementation of many of these features in modern browsers. Here are [...]
Over at Roughly Drafted is a very interesting article about the UI issues of having Flash on a touch screen device. I pretty much slapped my forehead when I read this, since it is actually very obvious once you think about it, but most of us haven’t had a chance yet to experience Flash on [...]
A full month without a post! Time is truly flying right now. On the personal side, I’ve been busy with helping to prepare for our little family as the arrival of the Little One(tm) is getting closer and closer… And work-wise I’ve spent as much time as possible reading up on the new HTML5 and [...]
The number of changes to HTML and CSS that are now showing up in browser rendering engines as part of the general push towards HTML5 are quite astonishing. If you are a web developer and you are not spending all your time right now learning new technologies, then you are probably doing something wrong. Among [...]
The Web as we know it is based for the most part on ten year old technology. There are many features that web designers have been craving for since the early 2000s that have been stuck in standardization limbo for many years and still now, in 2010, the web community has to support ancient browsers [...]