The Web Standards Hoedown
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For afficiandos of songs about Web Standards, it’s like Hendrix, Presley, Lennon, Moon and Strummer meeting up and videoing a jam session (before they died).
Yes: the Opera Developer Relations Team annual meet-up was an opportunity for Andreas Bovens (banjo), Daniel Davis (ukular missile), Chris Mills (vocals, desk-drumming) and me (guitar) to play together.
I decided to write a hoedown, as our new American team members were feeling very homesick in Europe.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, is our Web Standards Hoedown. It’s a muscial version of HTML5, hollow demos and forgetting the basics. Yee har!
(n00b)
All this HTML5
makes me feel like I’m alive
I can’t wait to use it, me oh my!
I find it so upliftin’
that with <canvas> and some scriptin’
I can build myself a whole UI.
(Old-timer)
Hold your horses, friend
It’s just a means it’s not an end
you can just use HTML and SVG!
Use the shiny things now
But you gotta learn just how
to use them semantically.
(n00b)
Who gives a damn who I’m frustratin’?
Look – my webpage is rotatin’!
If you can’t use it, I don’t care.
Your browser’s blocked, quite rightly
if you don’t use this nightly
With this API I use just cause it’s there.
(Old-timer)
Sonny, I’ll give you the low-down
At this Web Standards hoedown:
Leave those guys and come and dance with me.
Let the specheads go square-dancin’!
We’ll be progressively enhancin’:
using standards semantically.
(All)
We’ll use the standards semantically.
Video by Patrick H Lauke, squeals from Divya Manian, impassive French man by Karl Dubost.
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[…] Here are the first couple of verses from the Web Standards Hoedown, you can check out the rest on Opera’s Bruce Lawson’s blog. […]
[…] Here are the first couple of verses from the Web Standards Hoedown, you can check out the rest on Opera’s Bruce Lawson’s blog. […]
[…] Here are the first couple of verses from the Web Standards Hoedown, you can check out the rest on Opera’s Bruce Lawson’s blog. […]
[…] Here are the first couple of verses from the Web Standards Hoedown, you can check out the rest on Opera’s Bruce Lawson’s blog. […]
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AWESOME.
Nice work, Bruce and c/o.
Awesome! You rock 🙂
Hey Bruce, Nice hair!
Canadian-Andy, May, Malmö, Beer.
Was just browsing the interweb searching for HTML5 articles to use in my lessons and stumbled upon this: http://html5demos.com/
“by Bruce Laweson & Remy Sharp….
Get it now and kick some HTML5 ass!”
Thought you might want to kick some ass for misspelling your name.
While I’m on the subject click here: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/12/99-grammar/
Cheers:)
Fanfuckingtastic! 🙂
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Of course, this is being tweeted all over, but I’d thought I’d come into comments with BRAVO! BRAVO!