The week-end was a blast! I'm currently collecting pictures from the huge party we were. It's gonna take a bit of time to filter and build you a "best of". I've updated The Acolyts' myspace page, so if you want to listen to some Heavy/Doom Metal demos, it's there : http://www.myspace.com/theacolyts
Tomorrow morning I'll leave for a 3 days week-end in Dublin! Traveling between European capitals has become incredibly cheap these days, hence the price for my plane ticket: €0.25. Of course you have to add ecological and airport taxes, so in the end the round trip Paris-Dublin is €60. Not so bad! My friends and I constituted a large party (12 friends!) and we are ready to have some Guinness pleasures in real Irish pubs! The accomodation is quite cheap too, I made a reservation for an hostel, €17/nights.
I'm quite sure this week end will be a blast!! I hope that we'll take nice pictures so I can upload them in a future blog post. By the way I just spent two awesome week-ends, one in Dunkerque (north of france) and the other one in Brittany (not Britain !). I hope to find some time to sort the pictures and post them too :)
I'm testing the HTML5 audio tag. As far as Firfox is concerned it only works with wav and vorbis (OGG) files. I'm curious to know if that works behind your firewalls and other procrastination exterminators.
edit: Many thanks for your testing! I did some tests on my side and here are the results:
Firefox 3.5 => Success (even behind Natixis' firewall of death) Chrome 3.0 => Fail (Thanks Leif!) Edit :Chrome 4.0 => Success ! Safari 4 => Half Fail (Support the audio tag since 3.1 but doesn't support OGG) Opera 6.24 => Fail Opera 10 (beta) => Fail although this browser is impressively fast! IE => Of course failed
Conclusion:
As expected the HTML5 audio tag's support is still very thin. Even if the tag was supported by all the browsers there is a codec war preparing. Apple is pushing for AAC and H.264 while Mozilla implements OGG vorbis. Of course Microsoft (if they ever plan to implement HTML5, why bother?) will want their DRM filled WMA/WMV to be the only standard on the web. Guess what, you, web develepper, will never use such things as HTML5 audio tags because your boss will tell you: "you're ****ing with 70% of our market share". So back to flash my firends! It's a weird buggy, fat and slow pluggin that somehow managed to find its way on most client's browser. Other solution: if you only target A browser, well then just use all of its power! (you could even go ahead and use some ActiveX if you are crazy enough and if you hate anything free (and sane) in this world)
Carole being a movie star on the beach with her brother being a surfer
The very wide shores of the north. This is where the Britts flew away from the battlefield when france was invaded in 1940
A Nazi bunker and its conqueror
Sign information FAIL, notice the "thanks for your understanding" at the bottom
Enjoying a weird smile next to a canal in Belgium
Me next to the satute of the local hero Jean Bart, the guy who got Dunkerque rid of pirates!
Yes I own this shop
