Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Wilderness Downtown is a fascinating interactive film built in HTML5 for Chrome by some Google folks. It only works in Chrome, but it’s worth downloading and installing Chrome if you don’t already have it, just to see what is possible with the technology. There are other Chrome experiments, also. Dive into the Modern Web [...]
Good news for HTML5 Video is about H.264. Movies. Now YouTube is offering instant movie downloads, and there’s an app for watching movies from Netflix on your phone. 5 Myths About Philadelphia’s ‘Blogging Tax’. The Philadelphia tax came up in a discussion in the comments on this post, so I thought it bore mention here.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
HTML5 + RDFa = time to get rid of that 20th Century furniture is an interesting high level look at web interactions and a lot of specific hits on HTML5, RDFa, Drupal and SPARQL. Plus, just looking at this blog makes me feel good. Love the primary colors. It cheers me up almost as much [...]
Saturday, August 21, 2010
28 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know is an excellent list from Jeffrey Way. Longdesc may be dropped from the HTML5 spec. Right now it’s in the “let’s argue about it” phase. WebAxe has a discussion by podcast with some folks who examine the issue. The Fate of Longdesc in HTML5. What’s the [...]
There was some discussion about HTML5 document outline in the comments to my recent post HTML5: the new hgroup element. I thought the topic deserved a post of its own. We’re all familiar with the DOM, that treelike structure that outlines the contents of an HTML document. Here’s a snippet of a DOM tree as [...]
The W3C has a new validator at validator.w3.org/unicorn they are calling a “unified” validator. Unified because it checks HTML (including HTML5), CSS, and RSS feeds. The validator at validator.nu also checks HTML5, and can be set to check for ARIA roles as well. Introduction to Keyboard Maestro from ATMac has a discount offer good through [...]
In HTML5, the new hgroup element serves an interesting purpose. I want to build you an example, starting with the hgroup element and working outwards to show how it could be part of the new article element. The hgroup element can contain only h1-h6 elements. Here’s an example: <hgroup> <h1>10 Terrific Tech Blogs by Women</h1> [...]
It’s been on my mind lately to try to find out how well a screen reader will navigate a page of HTML5. I’m particularly wondering about how hierarchy would make sense if there were to be a series of articles on a page, all with an h1 in a header element. HTML5, ARIA Roles, and [...]
Cross-browser CSS box-shadows at Opera Dev shows you how to make it work. Demand for HTML5 Skills on the Rise, Report Says at Web Worker Daily quotes a study showing a 474 percent increase in demand for HTML5 developers at online job posting sites. Are educators working HTML5 into the curriculum? When do you think [...]
You know Copyblogger, right? Copyblogger is Brian Clark, the genius writer with a kajillion followers who gives good advice to bloggers about how to get traffic and keep readers coming back. I was playing a game in my head with some of the Copyblogger headlines, thinking that if people who wrote about HTML and CSS [...]
RSS Feeds
