Cette affirmation tend à ne plus être vraie: d’une part, les balises non spécifiées dans l’HTML5 «canonique» (ex. pour une balise que j’invente <bibliotheque></bibliotheque>, les navigateurs afficheront sans problème son contenu, à l’exception d’anciennes version de Microsoft Internet Explorer †); d’autre part on peut bel et bien créer des éléments avec la fonction JavaScript document.createElement('balise-speciale') (et cela est très fréquemment en usage aujourd’hui, particulièrement avec des frameworks comme Angular, React, Vue.js).

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By enabling learners and teachers create their own rich material, a lot can happen.

Somehow, eBooks aren’t part of responsive design? Even in ePUB3?

With LocalStorage, can open up some interesting possibilities.

That might be the issue with the PhET simulation I added as a widget to an ePUB.

Humorous talk on website bloat by Maciej Cegłowski, creator of the Pinboard bookmarking service.

Streaming torrent client for browsers and NodeJS, implemented completely in JavaScript with WebRTC.

https://twitter.com/WebTorrentApp

The BBC is open sourcing their experimental HTML5 Video Compositor. "This is an experimental JavaScript library for playing back dynamically modifiable edit decision lists (EDLs), and applying WebGL shader based effects."

https://github.com/bbc/html5-video-compositor

"Progressive Web Apps", an idea for better mobile performance using HTML5 Service Workers.

Maps make a great case for SVG. There are some neat libraries and tools to play with SVG maps but, more importantly, maps make it easy to understand that an image can be semantic.

A couple of weeks before Shepazu posted this, was playing with SVG maps of contemporary Africa’s political boundaries. (Especially those used on Wikipedia; including some which separate South Sudan.) Been teaching African Studies (on occasion) for years, and maps of the continent tend to become important quite quickly.

Those SVG maps with which I started playing were pretty neat in several respects. The fact that they were vector drawings instead of bitmaps meant that they easily be resized without causing visual artifacts. More importantly, though, each country was drawn as a named outline, so it was possible to play with them as separate objects.

One thing I was trying to do is create an animation which would show where each country fits in a region of the continent, using this United Nations geoscheme. Doing so, eventually noticed that Sudan and South Sudan had been classified as part of different regions, which is an interesting tidbit which could lead to useful classroom discussions.

Haven’t retraced all the steps but, at some point, I’ve used a Public Domain map of Africa from Wikimedia Commons (itself based on another Public Domain map), and ended up creating a simple animated version using Tumult’s Hype commercial HTML5 editor.

It’s flawed in many ways, but for someone with almost no background in this things, it’s a significant accomplishment.

(Surely, the same could be done through SVG itself. Haven’t been able to learn how to do so.)

Playing with those maps taught me quite a few things. For instance, the benefits of a well-tagged image. And some rudimentary notions of CSS-based animations. Or the limitations linked to selecting rectangular sections of an image (with a large overlap between Northern and Western Africa, for instance).

The experience also gave me all sorts of ideas. Such as annotating parts of a well-structured image. Or uses for Open Street Maps. Or ways to embed interactive content (including quizzes) in Open Textbooks.

The key point, perhaps, and what led me to Schepers’s work (including this deeply insightful SVG-based presentation and interactive infographic about annotations) is that Open Standards can open up fascinating opportunities for learning.

So nice to be working at a standards-happy learning technology non-profit!

A tutorial

Dev HTML5 games 4 beginners

Tools and tutorials for making HTML5 games

Is there any other reasonable bet than HTML5?! Especially in the smartdevice realm where there is a rich set of HTML5-family features already enabled it makes less and less sense to make native applications except for special edge-cases. And any smartdevice competitors cannot possibly compete against iOS and Android on their own unique native app development format-- so HTML5 would seem the only reasonable place to focus development of new apps. Where Ubuntu succeeds is compatibility with an already well established Linux ecosystem.