Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Create Dynamic Form Labels with ARIA is from Yahoo! Accessibility and is pretty clever. Why not watch a keynote address from Jeffrey Zeldman? This one’s from The Web Comes of Age – DIBI. HTML for Babies. Yes, it’s real. Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be web standards illiterate.
The CSS property border-radius is used to make rounded corners. A rule such as #twitter { border: solid 1px blue; border-radius: 10px; } Would round the borders of a an element with the id=”twitter” by the same amount on all sides. As with all CSS rules involving the box model, you could choose to round each [...]
Microdata and RDFa Living Together in Harmony from Jeni’s Musings is valuable reading for anyone interested in the semantic web. It’s a long article full of fine-grained suggestions. She concludes, Regardless, there are lessons that RDFa and microdata could learn from each other, and changes to both languages that would help developers use them on [...]
It turns out that this story was a hoax. Mashable and BBC News have both confirmed it. Sorry to have fallen for the story along with everyone else. But, I have to say, hoax or no hoax, if it shamed even one person into upgrading from IE 6 to a newer browser . . . The [...]
product HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World, written by Alexis Goldstein, Louis Lazaris and Estelle Weyl, is from Sitepoint (2011). This book takes on several topics that could fill an entire book individually, yet manages to serve each topic well. As you can tell from the title, the book talks about HTML5 and CSS3, [...]
One of the classes I’ve been teaching at UNM Continuing Ed lately is Beginning Dreamweaver. The school uses Adobe Creative Suite 4 in the lab where I teach. The DOCTYPE options in DW 4 are either transitional or strict in HTML 4/XHTML 1.0. Outside of the UNM lab, the most recent version of DW on [...]
Media Queries: a collection of responsive web designs is a new site with selection of sites to study. (Also, see my post on Media Queries 101.) If you’re teaching one of those introduction to the Internet classes where you show students how to search effectively, here’s a helpful post. How to search & do more [...]
A new web standards compliant WYSIWYG web editor is now available at bluegriffon.org. Features include that it’s open source and free, plus it does: HTML5 – including forms, video and audio CSS3 – including D Transforms, Transitions, Shadows, Linear/Radial Gradients and Repeating Gradients, Border Images, Columns, Flex Box Model SVG MathML a user interface to [...]
This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Development by W3C Imagine a web where our browsers connected directly to each other to do voice, video, media sharing and run applications, using P2P and real-time APIs, rather than going through centralized servers that controlled traffic and permissions.
Standardista (Estelle Weyl) deserves a useful links post devoted only to her blog. First there’s a wonderful beginning tutorial on the canvas element: HTML5: Introduction to <canvas>. As a bonus, she explains the difference between canvas and SVG in a clear and succinct paragraph at the end. In a page of example gradients called Striped [...]
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