Random and Binary IO using Iteratees
I wrote previously about interesting developments related to left folds and i/o. Oleg Kiselyov has come up with more Iteratee based goodness involving binary i/o and random access. more →
Not a Tutorial on HAppS
A long time ago I took a look at HAppS, a Haskell web application framework. I recently got the excellent book Real World Haskell and have been working through the book. I wanted something to explore while doing this so I revisited HAppS to play around with web programming in Haskell. There's some documentation out there on HAppS, compared to... more →
Firefogg - an extension to encode and upload ogg videos
I got an email today about a great new extension that is being worked on to help with sites supporting Ogg Theora videos. Firefogg is a Firefox extension to allow selecting a video, encoding it into Ogg format, and uploading it to a server. Sites supporting this extension can receive videos transcoded to Ogg with all the work to do... more →
SRT Subtitles with HTML5 video
j^, the author of many cool open video related projects (including the Theora transcoder ffmpeg2theora) has written a jQuery based library to extract and show subtitles while a <video> is being played. The jquery.srt page has details and a demo. Embedding code looks like: <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.srt.js"></script> more →
Changes to git mirror of Firefox repository
I've made changes to the way I manage the git repository holding the import of the Firefox source. Since the bulk of the HTML 5 <video> implementation is now in the main Firefox source I no longer maintain the video branch. I'll be removing that and the Firefox mirror soon. The main Mozilla repositories have been split into two now.... more →