5 HTML5 Websites

Even though HTML5 has been around for years, it is only over the last few months that it started to become a new web favorite.

HTML5 This includes several new features: it allows animations and provides a highly customisable video player without Flash, a new backwards compatible doctype and a few new taglines that simplify parts of the coding.

More and more developers are adapting their sites and pages to feature HTML5 coding, and it is only a matter of time now before this standard will become widely used.

Below you can check out 5 top HTML5 sites online.

en.opera.se - Scandinavians are always a step forward. This is the stylish site of the Göteborg’s Opera House, rich of media content, and powerful visuals. A great example of a HTML5 work.

html5readiness.com - Great site dedicated to hml5 and css3 evolution and features.

spaghettiphp.org - a framework dedicated to help programmers with powerful tools to make coding easier.

8weekgame.shawson.co.uk/ManicSpaceman - a really great game built featuring HTML5 - You are an astronaut that crashed his spaceship on an alien planet, and needs to get back to the wreckage of the ship.

lesmads.de/blogs/okcool - German fashion sine OK cool provides a visually strong, yet simple and user friendly interface, fast loading pages and straight-forward design.

The Story Behind The Famous Beatles Abbey Road Photo

The famous Beatles’ Abbey Road LP cover, featuring George, Paul, Ringo and John walking over a zebra crossing in London is now a British iconic image, but the story behind it is that it took little planning. Reportedly it came as a last-minute idea for the album’s cover, and was taken as a series of only 6 images in a ten-minute shoot.

The Beatles had recently undergone turmoil before recording Abbey Road. The death of manager Brian Epstein proved trying for the four. Paul McCartney, purportedly initiated the recording by approaching George Martin with the suggestion that they record an album “like we used to.” (The suggestion refers to the Beatles’ return to simple songs within the album.)

With the LP recording finished, the band was at a loss for an album name or cover. Ringo Starr reportedly made the suggestion that they simply shoot for a cover outside of the recording studio, then known as EMI. The name of the album supposedly followed.

The group contacted a photographer friend of John and Yoko Ono’s, Iain MacMillan, to shoot for the job. On August 8, 1969, at 11:35 AM, MacMillan shot 6 photographs of the group while a policeman held up traffic.

As the day was hot, McCartney kicked off his shoes for some of the photographs. This move later contributed to the cult belief among fans that the group was communicating Paul was actually dead; he was rumored to have been replaced by a look-alike for the photo shoot.

Fans also surmised that the group was communicating Paul’s death by posing the “look-alike” with his left foot, forward, instead of right foot. He is the only Beatle doing so in the image. It has been pointed out that Paul is the only left-handed member of the group, and so would naturally pose with his opposite side facing out if they were directed to walk together.

After looking over the negatives of MacMillan’s shots, Paul chose the classic image, the fifth, as the album cover. The image has since become a pop culture icon, with numerous bands imitating it, and caricatures occurring frequently of it. Its popularity is probably due in part to the album’s success.

The album debuted straight to number one in 1969, and is considered one of the greatest albums ever made by the Beatles. The recording studio EMI changed its name to Abbey Road, possibly as a direct result of its popularity.

There has recently been a web-cam set up which records the photo site. Abbey Road was also recently listed as an historic landmark for Britain. In 2009, the site was the spot of a 40-year anniversary celebration honoring the photo. The Beatles’ famous Abbey Road photograph story reveals it had unsuspecting origins, but the image is remembered as a pop icon.