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Under The Hood Of Google’s Cube Slam Game

Google’s latest ‘Chrome experiment’ is Cube Slam, a two-player online game which incorporates video chat. As well as being a massive potential distraction, it’s also a neat demonstration of the WebRTC standard being used for real-time communication in an HTML5 environment.


This Train Map Is Not An Image, Just Pure Code

This version of London’s iconic tube map looks just like the official PDF of the transport network. In fact, it is created entirely from HTML, CSS and JavaScript.


The Awesome New Technology That You’ll See On The Web This Year

The web becomes more and more capable each day, finding ways to replace what you do on your desktop. In the very near future you’ll talk to your web apps, enjoy complex animation without the drain of Flash, and maybe even plug in your guitar. These features and more already exist, and they’re coming to the broad internet this year.


This HTML5 Bug Lets Web Sites Fill Your Hard Drive (With Cat Pictures)

HTML5 lets code run in your browser. Code often wants to store data. A student developer has demonstrated how a poor implementation of one small part of the HTML5 standard means it is quite easy to build a site that fills your hard drive while displaying pictures of cats.


modern.IE Tests Your Sites For Internet Explorer Compatibility

Internet Explorer remains a widely-used browser, but testing for compatibility can be a pain if you’re on a non-Windows machine or prefer to stay inside another browser. The recently-launched modern.IE site helps test sites for IE compatibility, letting you enter any site address and receive suggestions on how to ensure it renders in IE.


The Tech Wisdom Of Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Having already spoken at several locations around the country during his Australian tour, Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave the final keynote at Linux.conf.au this morning. What are his thoughts on open platforms, operating systems choice, HTML5 DRM and the <blink> tag?


Why Did Virgin Australia Decide To Use Flash?

Virgin Australia shifted its back-end systems over the weekend, migrating from Navitaire to Sabre in a shift that was always expected to cause disruption to customers. As expected, the process has experienced the occasional glitch and lots of elements of the site aren’t working right now. Those bugs will surely get ironed out over time, but there’s one element that seems messy for Virgin’s longer-term strategy — the new online check-in system defaults to using Flash.


Watch Every Single Episode Of Rage From 1998 To 2012

This is seriously amazing. It’s a gorgeous web-based player (which also works on mobile) that lets you stream every single episode of the ABC’s iconic music video show RAGE all the way back to 1998.


My First, Failed Attempt At A Chrome Extension

Programming is a massive part of my working life. Regardless of what I’m doing on my PC, in the back of my mind, I’ll be thinking of a program or script that could make whatever I’m doing easier. Any repetitive task that requires a series of similar actions is immediately broken down by the little decompiler in my brain and translated into pseudo-code, ready for input into my language of choice. Recently, I decide to convert one of my programs into a Chrome extension, mainly to familiarise myself with the process. Despite my efforts, however, I failed miserably.


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