HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of FireFox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new betas of Google Chrome and Opera, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. Most interesting: modern mobile devices like the iPhone or Android-based phones also support new standards in favor of Flash. The future looks bright for HTML5.

Time for us to play with this technology. We’ve created a little experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen.

The original particle engine was ported from a Flex/AS3 project that we’ve created to javascript. We’re using processing.js for particle rendering on canvas which is a very useful graphics library created by John Resig. The music will only be played if the browser supports the audio tag. To detect if the audio or canvas feature is present we use the awesome modernizr library. We could have used a fallback solution like playing the sound via Flash. But this experiment is about HTML5 – and who needs Flash anyway?

Home of the Finest Mobile App Makers

This resource features companies that create mobile apps. A catalog of developers if you will.

An unlikely mix, perhaps, but what we have in common is passion for creating the next generation of computers. Our two-year pursuit has been continually fueled by enthusiasm and excitement about our mission, and the opportunity to design each and every part of litl. The results are simple, useful and delightful.

Browser visualization from 2002-2009. Fascinating to see as things go from all blue (Internet Explorer) to orange (Firefox) and possibly to green (Chrome)?

Search what the politicians are saying.

related:
Presidential Recordings Program

He's got a thing for light & ways of manipulating it.

Robert Hodgin aka Flight404 is truly a magician on generative art + technology. If you know what Processing is, you certainly know who Robert is and will visit his portfolio for sure!

Custom Visualization by Axiis via @point5