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.
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 [...]
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Think Vitamin has a set of video tutorials that can be viewed free. Some look suitable for classroom use. Content Strategy Roles and You has some great ideas for organizing your workforce to fill content strategy roles. Be sure to check out the great infographic on approaches to web content strategy. Speaking of content strategy, [...]
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language takes on the issue of leveling the playing field in CS classes with an interesting suggestion. What do you think of this idea? In case of Emergency, Update your Facebook status talks about what is happening the the world of social media and how it’s changing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Patch vs. Media News: One Little Instructive Story is about the AOL hyperlocal news service called Patch. The landscape is shifting under our feet. Pay attention. I’ve written about a lot of “build a website, free!” sites, especially for eHow. Now there is a company in the field that has found a way to make [...]
Tech tips, geeky how-tos, thoughtful analysis of issues, news about the latest gadgets, ideas for improving your blog—you’ll find it all in these 10 terrific tech and science blogs. They just happen to be written by women. I. Hacker Chick The Hacker Chick Blog is a beautiful starting point. I say beautiful because the graphics [...]
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Color contrast is a major accessibility issue on a web page. The greater the amount of contrast, the better the readability is for a page. The most contrast you can get is black text on a white background. Things go downhill from there. The degree of readability loss with colors other than black and white [...]
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