Recently, there has been a lot of hype about the HTML5 video. No wonder why - Google thinks the format is hot enough it is worth encoding thousads of the YouTube videos as webm and make them available through new HTML5 version of youtube: http://www.youtube.com/html5.

Background

On September 27th I attended cool JavaScript meetup in Brighton called asyncjs. During two sessions (unfortunately I missed the first one so I had loads of catching-up to do) we built an amazing JavaScript Jungle / JavaScript environment.

We were asked to fill this environment with jungle creatures that respond to the occurring changes - sun, rain, time of the day and so on. Creatures could move around, eat grass or even eat each other.

Entire environment was created using jQuery and we were also allowed to use HTML5 canvas support libraries such as paper.js and raphael.js. In addition to that, we used fantastic little library called broadcast.js to create event-driven environment for our jungle.