PUBLIC MARKS with tags api & html5

Right now, the situation is awkward: most wrappers for IDB just don’t work and most tutorials don’t work. The spec changes ever so often (I’m having a hard time myself keeping IDBWrapper up-to-date), and the new versioning API makes a dynamic use of IDB close to impossible.

But the W3C saw, or was made to see, the writing on the wall and built a set of standard APIs into HTML5 for just this case and most modern browsers have picked it up. The draft for the spec is http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html if you want to read it through or need further info. The API is pretty marvelously simple. This implementation changes the URL to return latitude and longitude when they are available, which we can use in our Django view. Plus, the same code works on mobile devices (at least the iOS ones I carry) with no changes.

The experimental audio data API allows the programmer to access raw audio data and a processed FFT spectrum of the currently playing audio data through the HTML5 audio tag.

fullscreen API coming to browsers near you?