The new structural elements in HTML5 include section, article, aside, hgroup, header, footer, nav, figure, figcaption, time, and mark. First, let’s look at support in Internet Explorer. Starting in version 9 of IE, there is support for all the new elements. Versions prior to that provided no support, not even partial. Other browsers have been [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Video for Everybody! “Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to Flash automatically without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many browsers and platforms.” [...]
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
product HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide (7th Edition)by Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop is the latest edition in the Visual QuickStart Guide series about HTML and CSS. A couple of changes are immediately noticeable about the book. Elizabeth Castro now has a co-author after producing 6 editions of this book on her own. And [...]
Friday, December 23, 2011
Top Ten Tests for Alternatives on Mobiles. “The tests below are just a subset of mobile accessibility guidelines that should be followed and focuses purely on alternatives for screen reader users.” HTML 5 and CSS3 Advent. A web dev’s advent calendar. Mobile HTML5. Charts for devices and what they support.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
product Introducing HTML5 (2nd Edition) by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp is from New Riders (2012). The book includes everything from descriptions of new structural elements (like article, nav, and aside) to canvas, data storage, enabling offline, and drag and drop. It even includes some things that are not actually part of HTML5, like geolocation. [...]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Future of CSS Layouts. It’s coming and it’s gonna be good. Check out this exciting post by Peter Gasston at .net. What you need to know about the HTML5 Slider Element. There is no slider element in HTML5, the post is talking about the new input type ‘range’ combined with the JQuery function called [...]
How to Make Forms more Usable with HTML5 is a good tutorial from Steven Bradley. The new WeTopia game on Facebook is described by TechCrunch. This game is a perfect example of what Jane McGonigal and other thinkers say about using game theory to create social good. NC State U evaluates the accessibility of Moodle [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
Nice article on Opera Dev by Chris Mills about Adaptive Design with media queries. Nested Figure Elements on Paciello Blog. The Sketchbook of Susan Kare: The Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face. Did you know about Susan Kare? I’d never heard of her before. I certainly think a mention of her contribution to the [...]
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Adobe announced yesterday that it will stop developing the Flash Player for mobile devices. They will continue to support the Flash Player on desktop devices. Their statement said, Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app [...]
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
CSS3 Image Styles is a terrific tutorial explaining how to use CSS3 and background images to do some very cool things. You can now read HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith online. This is an excellent book, go read it. The site is built in HTML5. Look under the covers. I’d like to examine [...]
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