by Scott Vandehey, Front-End Web Developer
The codec wars around the HTML5 video element might be settled sooner than you think: Basically, Google just open-sourced VP8, a video codec. VP8 is being combined with the Vorbis audio codec to create a new video format called WebM. Read More…
by Koes Bong, Font-End Developer
First of all, let me preface this post by saying: I love web standards, I love browsers that support web standards, I love most internet browsers except for Internet Explorer (maybe I'll make an exception for IE8). Now that I have gotten those out of the way, I have to say that to a certain extent, I can see how Internet Explorer helps me in becoming a better standard compliant HTML coder. Here are a couple case studies: A client wanted to have a paypal donate button to live on the sidebar. I requested for the paypal's cut-n-paste code from the client and was promptly responded to. I plugged in the code into the paypal donate box and voila!, works like a charm, but only in Firefox and Safari. Read More…