4chan Has Been DDOSed 710
An anonymous reader writes "According to the 4chan status page all of the 4chan boards have been DDOSed and are down."
Submission + - New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 V
adeelarshad82 writes: Google developers are always working on and updating the Chrome in three channels--Stable, Beta, and Developer--in increasing positions on the bleeding-edge scale. Today the company thought changes to the Beta channel warranted a post on the main Google Blog. The advances range from the superficial addition of themes for customizing the browser's window borders to even faster speed under the hood to internal support for HTML 5 tags such as and "web workers" which allows the browser to divvy processing work among sub-threads.
Submission + - HTML5 Canvas Experiment (9elements.com)
An anonymous reader writes: These guys built an impressive demonstration of modern browsers' HTML5 capabilities — from the 9elements blog: "HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new 3.0 beta of Google Chrome, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. [...] We've created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine." Who needs Flash anyway?
