HTML5 Live with John Allsopp : Just purchased my subscription. Though I’m familiar with a lot of this, I still have plenty to learn. I suspect it’ll be a good interactive complement to Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers . … Read the rest here
Just before noon (Eastern U.S. time) today, An Event Apart Minneapolis sold its last available seat. That’s three events so far in 2010 and three sell-outs. If you were hoping to join us in Minneapolis but hadn’t registered yet, we’re sorry we won’t see you there! You can contact our Event Manager to get put on the waiting list, or you can join us for one of the remaining two shows of the year: Washington DC and San Diego . There are strong reasons to prefer either one. In Washington DC , we’ll have our second-ever A Day Apart , a full day of in-depth learning with Jeremy Keith and Ethan Marcotte taking on the topics of HTML5 and CSS3, respectively… Read the rest here
A hard copy of Jeremy Keith ’s HTML5 For Web Designers arrived in the mail today. It’s wonderful to finally see how well-designed it is as a physical object. Most importantly, it’s the clear explanation of a confusing subject that’s made this little book a must-read. … Read the rest here
Is CSS the New Photoshop? : John Nack, Photoshop’s principal product manager: As people can do more and more in code, it makes sense to ask whether even to use Photoshop in designing Web content. I think Adobe should be freaking out a bit, but in a constructive way…. As for Photoshop, we could either teach the app to speak HTML natively (via live HTML layers ), or we could translate Photoshop-native artwork into HTML (e.g. ‘copy this button/text as HTML/CSS’). It’s not yet clear to me, however, how such code would smoothly integrate into one’s projects… Read the rest here
SlideShowPro Adds HTML5 : SlideShowPro, which is as prolific as Jeffrey Zeldman describes, is fully Flash-based. Zeldman recaps Todd Dominey’s resolution for accommodating Flash-unfriendly iOS devices. For publishers who use SlideShowPro, it’s as easy as updating the Flash Player embed code in your HTML documents. … Read the rest here
On Friday, June 25th, three things will happen: Clearleft will spend the day having some lomography fun around Brighton with Lomokev . Salter Cane will play a rocking concert with Caramel Jack upstairs at The Prince Albert pub on Trafalgar Street. HTML5 For Web Designers will begin shipping—the book written by me, edited by Mandy , designed by Jason and published by Zeldman . Tagged with clearleft saltercane html5 book … Read the rest here
On Friday, June 25th, three things will happen: Clearleft will spend the day having some lomography fun around Brighton with Lomokev . Salter Cane will play a rocking concert with Caramel Jack upstairs at The Prince Albert pub on Trafalgar Street. HTML5 For Web Designers will begin shipping—the book written by me, edited by Mandy , designed by Jason and published by Zeldman . Tagged with clearleft saltercane html5 book … Read the rest here
On Friday, June 25th, three things will happen: Clearleft will spend the day having some lomography fun around Brighton with Lomokev . Salter Cane will play a rocking concert with Caramel Jack upstairs at The Prince Albert pub on Trafalgar Street. HTML5 For Web Designers will begin shipping—the book written by me, edited by Mandy , designed by Jason and published by Zeldman . Tagged with clearleft saltercane html5 book … Read the rest here
On Friday, June 25th, three things will happen: Clearleft will spend the day having some lomography fun around Brighton with Lomokev . Salter Cane will play a rocking concert with Caramel Jack upstairs at The Prince Albert pub on Trafalgar Street. HTML5 For Web Designers will begin shipping—the book written by me, edited by Mandy , designed by Jason and published by Zeldman . Tagged with clearleft saltercane html5 book … Read the rest here
Web Design Concepts for Non-Web Designers : These slides are from a HOW presentation given by Matthew Richmond, aka Chopping Block . The slide format uses HTML5 and is based on the HTML5 Slideshow by Marcin Wichary, Ernest Delgado, Alex Russell, and Brad Neuberg. What’s significant about this presentation is that Matthew’s shop has been a Flash development shop almost since its inception. Although Matthew firmly believes that there are experiences Flash provides that HTML5 cannot replicate, he’s very aware of the heated zealous crazy current debate between the two technologies. Matthew and I, along with Patrick McNeil , had the pleasure of sitting on a panel together at HOW. Matthew and Patrick are both sharp individuals, and it was a pleasure to field questions from the audience together. … Read the rest here
HTML5 “Why You Should Care” Cheatsheet : It’s more conceptual than technical, but if you need a good primer for yourself or to share with others, this may do the trick. /via swissmiss … Read the rest here
“What I’d Prefer for the Safari 5 Reader” : Concept by Justin Stahl. I have to agree, the justified text kick that Apple is bent on right now is seems as one-sided as their Flash vs. HTML5 rhetoric. I honestly don’t get why a simple option isn’t available to allow the user to switch between justified and flush-left text, especially in iBooks. … Read the rest here
IE and HTML5 Testing, or “Apple’s Hilariously Disingenous ‘HTML5’ Showcase” : Bruce Lawson, Opera employee and member of The Web Standards Project : In the 18 months I’ve really focussed on HTML5, I’ve seen approximately 238 different HTML5 ‘testing’ sites appear. Most of them wildly pick and mix specs, checking for HTML5, related WHATWG-derived specifications such as Web Workers and then, drunk and giddy with buzzwords, throw in SVG, CORS, CSS Media Queries, and some Apple proprietary CSS extension before hyperventilating and going to bed for a lie down. He goes on to mention Apple’s HTML5 Showcase in support of his argument, while commending IE9’s HTML5 tests: Therefore, it’s particularly refreshing to see the new Microsoft IE9 HTML5 Testing Centre bringing some sanity to the party. None of the scope-creep for our friends in Microsoft. … Read the rest here
Prefetch Content with HTML5 : This sounds too easy. Add a line like this to your head element: or … and the browser fetches the content in the background as soon as the user’s computer is idle. If it sounds too easy, it’s probably because Firefox is currently the only browser to support this feature. But this has the potential to be a really useful feature. … Read the rest here
Smokescreen: Convert Flash to HTML5/JS : This is pretty slick. Retool your existing Flash files as HTML5/JavaScript via animated SVG. /via Daring Fireball … Read the rest here
You may have noticed a lot of HTML5 vs. Flash talk lately. Substitute HTML5 for HTML5 video . Frankly, I’m a little baffled by this supposed dichotomy because you don’t have to choose. The way that video works, according to the spec , is for fallback content to be placed between the opening and closing <video> tags. So you can go ahead and use object or embed or whatever you need to put your Flash video in your markup… Read the rest here
Following on my “HTML5 vs. Flash” talk of a couple of weeks ago, I’m hoping to do a bit of blogging about HTML5, Flash, mobile apps, and more. But first I need to get some terminology straight. As I did in my talk, I’m going to refer to the collection of front-end web-standards technologies—(X)HTML (of any flavor), CSS, and JavaScript—as “the web stack”. I’ve seen the term used here and there and it makes the most sense to me as a condensed verbal shorthand. It beats writing out the specific technologies every time or trying to use similarly clumsy constructions like “front-end tech”. … Read the rest here
Flash vs. et al: Filling In the Gaps : Jonathan Snook: These new [HTML5] features do negate some of the need to use Flash; however, I’m reluctant to think that these few features will be the death of Flash. There are simply too many use cases out there for which HTML5 does not serve. Hulu’s reluctance to embrace HTML5 is very much case in point. Chat Roulette would be another. Or tinychat … Read the rest here
HTML started as a very simple language. By many accounts, it’s still very simple. You create some text and you wrap some tags around it. The tags provide a small measure of meaning and allow user agents—aka browsers—to present the content in a meaningful way. In the early days of the web, browser developers quickly added features that helped web developers build more exciting sites and applications… Read the rest here
HTML 5 Demos and Examples : Hacked together by @ rem . … Read the rest here