Well, on my Macbook Mojave I just downloaded Chrome because the bandlab.com, which just started playing with, supports this browser but not Safari.
But now that I have Chrome on my mac, I may as well start studying its intricacies. It gives me the chance to study the behavior of my Herman web video game on browsers other than Safari.
One of the problems I came up with is an error on the support of the Web Audio API that stated: "The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed (or created) after a user gesture on the page." When I went to a webpage of mine that uses the webaudio oscillator, it worked, but when I back-spaced to a previous page that used same, I got this error. On Safari this didn't happen. As an owner of a website, I consider it a good idea to mess with other major browsers. As Safari uses the Webkit engine, currently Chrome seems to use Blink. How this affects the performance of webpages that use Web Audio I haven't yet studied.
As much as I'd like to think that Safari can walk on water and be the only browser that I ever need to use on my mac, as webmaster it's good to experiment with other browsers. Experimentation like this can help me work with more platform-indepentant code on my website.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Friday, April 10, 2020
Will corona virus really produce a "new normal"?
Much discussion about the corona virus has implied that the prolonged state of isolation and social distancing will create a new economy based on virtual stores, social activity and fellowship based in social media, and similar things. We fear a new Orwellian reality where augmented reality eliminates the need to have public parks, access to the smell of the ocean or even a view of the sky.
But if you remember the way the human spirit has been reacting through even our era, everyone is talking about refurbishing older experiences, like going to a drive-in movie instead of watching a movie on Netflix, or going to a real park instead of watching a 360Video (even though I find those fantastic), or having a real chorus perform a live barbershop concert (even though I am a proud user of apps like A Cappella and Band Lab) in a park amphitheater. As soon as we come to the end of the corona virus scare and the munchkins know they can safely come out from the bushes and meet Dorothy, it is inevitable that the human spirit will remember whatever was lost during this event. It will rebel by reviving those lost brick & mortar moments, those sweet smells of the woods and salty smells of the ocean. Remember that even in the pop culture where these things are often forgotten, it doesn't take a lot of people to remind us all what we have lost track of to get people back to recapturing those things.
This is why I don't think that restaurant dining, solitary beach walks, theatre performances, and the cinema are going anywhere. Okay, maybe I do live in Seattle, and that's how we think here. But we must also remember that, in the internet age, information travels fast, and our insights are bound to germinate elsewhere where people have yet to discover that they were real Seattlites at heart even if they live in a place where it still rules.
from my heart,
Billy Gard
But if you remember the way the human spirit has been reacting through even our era, everyone is talking about refurbishing older experiences, like going to a drive-in movie instead of watching a movie on Netflix, or going to a real park instead of watching a 360Video (even though I find those fantastic), or having a real chorus perform a live barbershop concert (even though I am a proud user of apps like A Cappella and Band Lab) in a park amphitheater. As soon as we come to the end of the corona virus scare and the munchkins know they can safely come out from the bushes and meet Dorothy, it is inevitable that the human spirit will remember whatever was lost during this event. It will rebel by reviving those lost brick & mortar moments, those sweet smells of the woods and salty smells of the ocean. Remember that even in the pop culture where these things are often forgotten, it doesn't take a lot of people to remind us all what we have lost track of to get people back to recapturing those things.
This is why I don't think that restaurant dining, solitary beach walks, theatre performances, and the cinema are going anywhere. Okay, maybe I do live in Seattle, and that's how we think here. But we must also remember that, in the internet age, information travels fast, and our insights are bound to germinate elsewhere where people have yet to discover that they were real Seattlites at heart even if they live in a place where it still rules.
from my heart,
Billy Gard
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