Google and The Arcade Fire Team Up for some HTML5 Goodness
- Aug 30th, 2010
- Posted by Ron Schott
- Posted in Google, Hipster Music, HTML5, Memory Lane
HTML5 is everywhere. I know something is getting big when I hear my non-techie friends talking about it over a pint at the Loft. Now, with today’s release of The Arcade Fire’s interactive video (available only in the Chrome browser), a bigger chunk of the populous just got introduced to the coming wave that is HTML5.
There’s a screenshot from the adventure below, which includes a Google Maps-enabled run down the streets of my hometown (kinda – Google didn’t want to drive down all the lonesome roads of Wenatchee and I grew up on a private street) and a section where you write an HTML5-ized version of a post card to the past you.
Here’s the link to the video for my boyhood home: The Wilderness Downtown – Wenatchee Style
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This is an interesting experiment of html5 with “a custom interactive music video”. It’s made using HTML5 instead of Flash. According the text, “[HTML5] is in its infancy right now”, and multimedia creator ifunia list a data that “Only 10% of Web video encoded in H.264 or HTML 5, not Flash.” supporting this opinion. So this is just an interesting experiment, if you got some Flash .flv video and want to watch them, maybe you need 3-rd party video converter software to help you.