Monthly Archives: March 2013

Watching people use Media Clips

By david.humphrey | Published: March 27, 2013
I wrote previously about our work to add Media Clips to Popcorn Maker. Since then we’ve watched as people have started to make things with it, from Ron Swanson dancing to any song to the International Space Station orbiting Earth, which has been a lot of fun. One project Brett showed me today was done [...]
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‘Pattern Recognition’ pattern recognition

By david.humphrey | Published: March 19, 2013
Though he does little to develop it, one of the enduring images for me of William Gibson’s novel, Pattern Recognition, is his idea of jet lag, and the disconnecting of the body and soul, how the speed of modern travel unravels us.  He writes: She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that [...]
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HTML5 time and data elements in Firefox

By david.humphrey | Published: March 5, 2013
HTML5 includes some great additions for authors wanting to work with microformats and microdata in markup.  Last week I finished implementing the new <time> and <data> elements in Firefox (see bugs 629801 and 839371).  You can already use them in Nightly, and they should ship as part of Firefox 22.  I wanted to say something [...]
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