The rules: a haiku “is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras, in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively.” I think it’s legitimate for the sake of simplicity to translate “moras” with “syllables.” A reference to a season or nature is a bonus.

A crude example, my Japanese readers may forgive me:

Show us the studies /
says hixie, experts shout fail. /
It’s about people.

And another:

For assistive tech /
canvas is invisible /
like tears in the rain.

So here is my challenge: twitter a haiku about HTML 5 and tag it with #html5haiku. There aren’t any prizes yet apart from the innocent fun of participation, but perhaps somebody would like to donate something?

What enthralls me more (and is the reason to write about here) is the technical progress of the anti-fascist movement. Some are still stuck in the 1990s while others have embraced the wonders of web 2.0. To my surprise the website of the Anti-Fascist Coordination Frankfurt features a clean design with a tag cloud-like navigation, sliding animations with jQuery, YouTube videos, and a very basic microsite for mobile access. What rocks most is the creative use of twitter to keep protesters informed via mobile phone. Brilliant!

That said this approach comes with a few drawbacks, for example pages are not bookmarkable. I cannot link to the mobile page because it’s just an invisible layer with display:none on the main page. Their JavaScript is obtrusive, and the site is inaccessible for people with disabilities. Although these issues could be fixed, I suppose it was not their main priority. However, it would be suitable for politically correct organizations to enable participation for all, regardless of disabilities. Especially when their protest is supported by disability organizations like the CeBeeF.