HTML5 Please is a new site reflecting the suitability of the latest Web Standards that are still works in progress. It’s somewhat similar to Can I Use.
A brief video guide to using the menu element in HTML.
Aurora 10′s just landed and it includes the Page Visibility API – enabling JS apps to know when they’re in the background, and thus throttle down, or perhaps get on with some housekeeping that woudl otherwise interrupt the user.
Neat example of how an old school platform puzzle can easily make the jump to the web using HTML5′s canvas element and JavaScript.
Table of compatibility showing Browsers vs Web APIs.
An extensive summary of the web technology stack.
Some background thoughts on “Responsive Web Design” (i.e. one of the things I espouse during web design lectures). If the web page contains the information and the CSS describes they layout, then it’s hard to do anything but a design that is responsive.
Some notes on HTML page structures that dynamically reflow on devices with differently sized screens.
nother great video in the YUI Theatre series, this time on HTML5 Audio.
codepo8 waxes um, poetic, at the Web2Day conference.
An HTML5 Canvas Heatmap Library. I was talking about heatmaps with a project student and had the idea that a canvas based heatmap would be a great tool. As with anything on the web these days, someone’s created a pretty cool implementation already.
Maqetta, a components based IDE for lazy (good lazy) javascript & html5 application creation.
A preliminary view of Internet Explorer 10′s capabilities. Microsoft are playing a crazy catchup game again, hoping their browser (which is most definitely not part of the operating system) can be good enough that people won’t need to download or use competitor browsers. It seems silly that they’re still in this game. Netscape (and Joshua) …
Great detail on the various steps and tweaks for turning a web app into a phone app.
Interesting notes on orientation and scaling of web pages – something relevant to iOS and Android devices.
So what next fo XML? Some useful thoughts on the design decisins that hamstrung XML and how a break from SGML and rigorous syntax may be desirable.
List of shims, plugs and ladders for spanning the crevices of non-implementation in various browsers as we slowly concertina to and from a sedimentary layer of common functionality whilst concurrently leaping forward with standards and capabilities.
The platform agnostic HTML5 mobile web keeps getting faster.
Some nice ideas. Might build into my presentation engine.