Month: July 2011

All Is Not Lost, Or Is It?

I have mixed feelings about this … musical mediocrity aside, OK Go is a group who has done some entertaining and novel dance and video pieces.  And their latest project is particularly interesting to me, from my Web development perspective, as it exploits HTML5, the “latest and greatest” so-called Web standard.  Trouble is, it isn’t yet really standard, and as OK Go‘s piece shows us, we are still cursed with browser incompatibility.  Try it. And discover that it runs only on Chrome.  Not a big problem for me, as I have five browsers right at hand here on most all of my machines (where I usually spawn an alternate browser from a Firefox display by using one of several “view this in …” Firefox extensions).  But I’ll bet it is an inconvenience or even a show-stopper for many others.  Ten years ago, I said that surely browser wars would subside by now … but they may as bad or even worse now. . At least nobody is using the accursed ten-year-old IE6 still … or are they?  Job security, I guess.

The defanged version here:

While we are at it, let’s revisit an earlier OK Go vid or two.

 

Tree Down

This tree (click it), right across the street from my workplace, gave it up during a sudden monsoon-like thunderstorm that erupted yesterday afternoon. Doesn’t look so bad now, but the front office staff saw it all unfold, stopping traffic temporarily in the eastbound side of the street. Not being the dedicated photojournalist that you might expect, I waited until the storm had subsided to document the by-then-partially-cleaned-up aftermath. Nothing went down on the home front, but I heard reports upon returning there that they were bracing for it, as it was pretty much the strongest windstorm in recent memory. And that’s about as exciting as it ever gets around here …