Here’s a prediction: this weekend, Twitter will go down. I have a lot of friends in Twitter and I am very much trusting their abilities (which I know to be awesome) but there will be a fail whale. I am so convinced about this that if there is no outage and next time I am [...]

Tomorrow I will be at Microsoft London to make IE10 support classList speak at news:rewired – media in motion on the topic of open web video and what you can do with it. For this, I got 10 minutes and then answer questions (or ask them) in a panel. Update: The audio is now available [...]

As part of the “Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas” post on MDN today, I spent some time creating a short and working resizing function that takes an arbitrary image and re-sizes it to fit into a thumbnail of a certain width and height. After a few failed attempts I googled around [...]

Things that made me happy this morning: Morning Star is a monophonic bassline synthesizer controlled by a step sequencer, designed to run on Web browsers and made entirely with HTML5 and JavascriptGirls in a Tech World is a promotional video about women in tech – interviews with engineersVanilla JavaScript FTW is a side-by-side solution comparison [...]

TD;TR: Converting games to HTML5 is hurting the cause. We need more games written in web technologies. OK, I might be a bit late to the party but the latest “web version” of Angry Birds, “subtly” advertising this time not itself but Wonderful Pistachios was the talk of the day on some of my mailing [...]