David Emery Online

Friday Links XVIII

16 June 2007

Opera developing Flash replacement for mobile browser – I’m really interested in the idea of having native audio and video in the browser; it seems obvious when you think about it.

HTML5 differences from HTML4 – these video and audio tags appear here too, along with – finally! – some more native controls for web application developers to use.

Where Are The High Resolution Displays? – the high res are coming, no doubt about it – this post conveniently leaves out things like the HD screen in the new 17” MacBook Pro (133 dpi) and the screen on the iPhone (160 dpi).

YouTube Testing New Beta Design, Bigger Player – the bigger the player, the better I think. They also recently implemented support for Flash 9 full screen, which works really nicely, although they really need to up the quality of their videos.

How would you like to see iTunes improved? – I would love to see some form of built-in Last.fm-style statistics about my music; pretty graphs about my favorite artists, songs etc. Extending that out, via the iTunes store, to something where you can share that data with your friends would rock, too.

First, they came for the music executives… – it still staggers me how some people still don’t get it.

Parking – what a crazy system; I love how people have just adapted to cope, though.

Incremental Feature Search in Applications – incremental search rocks and should be used in as many places as possible, if you ask me. Interestingly, 10.5 has incremental search built in to the help menu, which will work automatically in all apps and help find items in the app’s menus.

Incremental leading – this sounds great, but I wonder if it can be done so it works well cross browser – and cross OS – without a lot of fiddling.

Alt-Rock Radio Is In A Sort Of Icky Place Right Now – in other words, alt radio is screwed, and they don’t have a choice but to do anything and everything to desperately pull in the listeners.

YouTube Remixer – Online Video Editing for YouTube – I’m not really sure video editing is the right kind of problem to try and solve with a web app – I’d much rather use iMovie, to be honest.

Should we post streaming tracks or not? – fairly academic discussion really, considering that their “streaming” tracks are just mp3s (fairly high quality at that) being played in a Flash-based audio player, and are trivial to download.

Apple faithful, we must prepare together for the media backlash – Nice post from fake-Steve: “Media whores, listen to me: If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”