http://happyworm.com/blog Breaking new ground on the web | The Worm Hole Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:37:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nobody it seems, at least not for video. Almost unbelievably in the space of a year, Flash the once ubiquitous format for all web-based video, has become surplus to requirements. Shunned by Microsoft in favour of Silverlight and by other browsers in favour of HTML5. Significantly, now that Opera has ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2010/03/05/html5-video-who-needs-flash/ Mark Boas Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others host a variety of JavaScript libraries on their Content Delivery Networks (CDN) - the most popular of these libraries being jQuery. But it's not until the release of jQuery 1.4 that we were able to create a robust failover solution should the CDN not ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2010/01/28/a-simple-and-robust-cdn-failover-for-jquery-14-in-one-line/ The Seeds of Change There's a lot of buzz being generated about HTML5 just now and I for one welcome the discussion that it has provoked. I'd always kept half an eye on the ongoing controversy regarding whether it was better to use the XHTML or HTML 4.01 standard. To add ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2009/08/24/html-5-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised/ I recently had the pleasure of working with the HTML 5 Doctors. They were interested in publishing a piece on the state of HTML 5 Audio and we were happy to oblige. The post was also picked up by Ajaxian.com It is great to be given the opportunity to provoke ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2009/07/31/html-5-and-audio/ With the jPlayer plugin for jQuery it is possible to include a fully customizable mp3 player on webpages. jPlayer has been developed by Happyworm and features standard track and volume controls as well as the possibility to play a playlist. jPlayer Features: play and control mp3 files in your webpage create and style ... http://happyworm.com/blog/2009/05/05/jplayer-the-css-styleable-jquery-mp3-player-plugin/