Last week WebKit included the much anticipated (at least on my part) 3D transforms in its latest nightly build, announced practically alongside the awesome Snow Stack demo that provides a 3D interface for browsing Flickr images (use left, right and space-bar). Today the Surfin Safari blog has updated with some more exciting demos, including “Morphin Power Cubes” and “Poster Circle”. It is now possible to create all sorts of crazy three-dimensional and animated user interfaces; the power comes largely in -webkit-perspective and a number of updated transforms–adapted to incorporate the Z axis.
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Having read John Resig’s “HTML5 Shiv” article and Remy Sharp’s “HTML5 enabling script”, it felt like the right time to begin the full fledged migration from XHTML to a cross browser compatible HTML5 blog. All in all the process of updating the templates was painless, taking about an hour or so to modify the WordPress Sandbox theme.
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“Track everything”, lest vital visitor trends fall through the cracks — that’s my newly endorsed web analytics doctrine. As a precursor to the quantitative ‘what’ and the qualitative ‘why’ we need that cold hard data before analysis can begin; Google Analytics is the popular harvester of choice and out of the box it grabs a lot. Visits, Pageviews, Screen resolution, et al — GA seemingly has all your conventional data needs covered. But one significant trend is lacking — how visitors leave your site, specifically through outbound links on a page, data that inevitably leads to a what and an avenue for investigating the why. For instance, “Which partner sites are attracting the highest click throughs?” or more generally “Why do visitors leave my site?”.
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