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HTML5 ‘Ribbon’ Interface for Web Apps In The Works

The ‘Ribbon’ interface Microsoft introduced with Office 2007 provided an innovative approach to the use and layout of toolbars in applications.

Following the release, OpenOffice toyed with the idea of creating a similar ‘tabbed toolbar’ concept for use with its own office suite. Whilst the mock-ups and discussions never bore much in the way of fruit for OpenOffice the idea of a ‘ribbon’ for use in open-sources apps hasn’t been abandoned.

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HTML5 version of Angry Birds lets you play in Chrome on Ubuntu

The folks over at Rovio, creators of the now famous Angry Birds, have unleashed an HTML5 version of the popular game that’s designed to run in Chrome (or Chromium!) on any operating system.

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YouTube HTML5-ifer For Chrome Makes YouTube A Joy To Use

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Chrome extension "YouTube-HTML5-ifier" replaces the flash-based YouTube player with a HTML5 video tag – thus giving you native video playback without the need for a CPU hungry Flash plugin! The extension can’t show any flash-reliant extras that a video might have, such as annotations, but it does automatically load the best quality video. Another nice [...]

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Watch YouTube Video’s Without Flash In Your Browser!

If you want to watch YouTube videos without using Flash you can – thanks to neosmart. Available as both a webpage AND as an extension for Chromium (and shortly to work on Chrome), Firefox and any other borwser that supports UserScripts. Simple go to http://neosmart.net/YouTube5/ and enter the URL of the video you want to [...]

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