Web New Media notes and ramblings

Here’s a great description of what HTML5 does and doesn’t do, with pictures and color coding.

http://www.focus.com/images/view/11905/?goback=.gde_2071438_member_32003623

You may find that you have a problem with special characters not displaying or showing up as a small black diamond with a ? in the center. Here’s a quick fix seems to work well.

These would be characters like: <, > and &. It also includes characters like: é,?, ø and the curly quotation marks.

At the point you are printing these characters into a page you’ll want to run them through the php htmlentities function. Here’s an example:

htmlentities( $str, ENT_COMPAT, 'Windows-1252' );

Where $str would be any string you wanted to convert to compatible characters.

For more info: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

This looks like a pretty interesting alternative method to get Flash on the iPhone and iPad. From what I have read it sounds like it’s slower that regular Flash especially when it comes to interactive stuff like games. At this point it’s probably good for ads.

Smokescreen seems to take an SWF and convert into an SVG file and ad some javascript, so the end results are compatible with iPhone and and iPad.

http://smokescreen.us/

Thanks to Karaminder for pointing me to this.