Seven HTML related working drafts published is reported on 456 Berea Street. The HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 draft was especially interesting to me.
Students may like CSS Border Radius. Insert a value for all corners or individual corners and grab the code. For those who don’t like typing.
Sitepoint is doing a series on jQuery [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
As a comment to em and his buddy strong, Tony Fahnestock sent a tweet mentioning the way the elements <i> and <b> are being treated in the working draft of HTML5 in a section called “text-level semantics.”
Here’s how the <b>, or bold, element is defined there.
The b element represents a span of text [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Two articles on using SVG for backgrounds by Shelley Powers are at A List Apart this week. Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I and Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II. You learn when to use it, where it works, how it works, tools to build it, and [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Transcripts on the Web: Getting people to your podcasts and videos at uiAccess provides valuable resources for creating transcripts of audio and video.
My (current) opinions on HTML5 from Dori Smith is a reflection on the writhing mass of eels known as HTML5 and what has happened in that arena in the last few days. Dori [...]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
I happily spent a couple of hours watching and listening to a lecture given at The University of Georgia by Molly Holzschlag. The lecture is part of the WaSP InterAct Curriclum web education program. Molly’s talk takes two hours, divided into 4 videos of about 30 minutes. Here’s the first of the 4 videos. Go [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Males vs. females in social media has stats, graphs, and the male to female ratio for 19 social media sites. Overall, women are in the majority but the men have yet to notice and take effective action.
What’s powering Web apps: Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] The LA Times reports that Google [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2009
What beautiful HTML looks like from CSS Tricks is a PNG image. It’s a little hard to read at browser size, but I can imagine it at poster size on a classroom wall, where it would be very useful and instructive.
Oxford Word of the Year is “unfriend.”
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine [...]