This month was a very special meetup for London Web Standards - it's 5th birthday celebrations! Yes, it's hard to believe that 5 years ago in October three guys met up in a North London pub to talk about the web. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Imogen Levy baked us a massive 7-layer London Web Standards Cake (British Bake-off contender next year 2013 for sure). Imogen, thank you so much (from all of the LWS Organisers)!
Last night, Twitter blogged about upcoming changes to its API in version 1.1. It's not the most communicative of posts, goes on for quite a bit and has incensed quite a lot of developers.
My CSS bookshelf is now available on github as an easy download if you want one yourself. Given that the code is now 2 years old it's showing its age somewhat, so I'll give it a spruce up over the next few weeks. Things like:
This month's London Web Standards was on augmented reality, a hot topic a few years ago that is making its way back into people's mindshare with projects like Google Glass. We had Dr. Paul Coulton talking about the current state of AR on mobile, Imogen Levy talking about how Westminster Abbey is using 3D and AR to improve the visitor experience, and Trevor Ward talked about how we can use AR now on current-generation devices.
HTML5 video players are incredibly useful, enabling developers to display video on non-flash devices (I'm looking at you, Apple). It's really simple to get started with HTML5 video, but when you want to do something more complicated, there's not much documentation. Thankfully, it's really quite simple, and this article will show you how to use the HTML5 video JavaScript API to interact with the videos.