HTML5 “Why You Should Care” Cheatsheet
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
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“What I’d Prefer for the Safari 5 Reader”
“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”
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
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
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
Awe Dee Oh
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
The Web Stack
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
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
Filling in the Gaps
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
HTML 5 Demos and Examples : Hacked together by @ rem . … Read the rest here
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative : Ryan Singel, writing for Wired: It’s time for the best of the tech community to find a way to let people control what and how they’d like to share. Facebook’s basic functions can be turned into protocols, and a whole set of interoperating software and services can flourish. Think of being able to buy your own domain name and use simple software such as Posterous to build a profile page in the style of your liking. You’d get to control what unknown people get to see, while the people you befriend see a different, more intimate page. They could be using a free service that’s ad-supported, which could be offered by Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, a bevy of startups or web-hosting services like Dreamhost. While I’d love to see Facebook lose its AOL-in-the-90s grip on the web, Ryan’s vision of an open alternative is nothing more than a pipe dream, I’m afraid. … Read the rest here
“By the Time Adobe Has Flash Working Well on Mobile, Will Anyone Still Care?”
“By the Time Adobe Has Flash Working Well on Mobile, Will Anyone Still Care?” : When Jeff Croft sits down to write, he can really write. His account of a mishap at FlashCamp Seattle and commentary about the state of Flash on mobile (and versus HTML5) is well-composed and free of irrational judgment. To use his remarks only to aggrandize ire towards all things Flash would be to miss the mark. Khoi Vinh would appear to agree, leaving these remarks in the comments: Jeff, you commendably bend over backwards to give Adobe and Flash a fair shake. I prefer this sort of discourse by far, but when the argument comes so consistently in just these two flavors, it’s hard to deny the fact that there’s something deeply wrong with the subject of all this debate. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, as they say… Read the rest here
HTML5 Readiness
HTML5 Readiness : Handy chart detailing comment HTML5 and CSS3 support in major browser engines. … Read the rest here
A site for Science Hack Day
I spent the weekend immersing myself in HTML5 and CSS3. I gave Principia Gastronomica a bit of a fine-tuning under the hood. I decided to ditch all the background images I was using to get rounded corners and drop shadows, and just use border-radius and box-shadow instead. Internet Explorer gets the same content with more pointy corners and without the illusion of depth. I also launched a brand new site: ScienceHackDay.com … Read the rest here
The Big Web Show 2: HTML5 Boogaloo
I had the pleasure of joining hosts Dan and Jeffrey for the second episode of The Big Web Show . We talked about Pete Townsend and cats that look like Hitler but mostly we talked about HTML5. Specifically, we talked about what’s between the covers of HTML5 For Web Designers . The audio is available for your huffduffing pleasure so go ahead and huffduff it if you fancy an hour’s worth of three-way markup action. The Big Web Show 2: HTML5 with Jeremy Keith on Huffduffer Tagged with bigwebshow html5 book audio huffduffer … Read the rest here
The format of The Long Now
In 01992, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a document called HTML Tags . In September 02001, I started keeping this online journal. Back then, I was storing my data in XML, using a format of my own invention. The XML was converted using PHP into (X)HTML, RSS, and potentially anything else …although the “anything else” part never really materialised. In February 02006, I switched over to using a MySQL database to store my data as chunks of markup… Read the rest here
Web 2.0 Talk: HTML5 vs. Flash
Earlier this week I presented a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo titled “ HTML5 vs. Flash: Webpocalypse Now? ” which seemed to be pretty well received. That might be because I did my best to be unbiased about the situation both now and into the future, and also that the audience was very heavily weighted toward web stack practitioners. Seriously, out of 100-150 audience members, about six raised their hand when I asked who was developing with Flash… Read the rest here
Announcing A Book Apart
Jason Santa Maria Go to the source
I’m very pleased to present A Book Apart , a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman , Mandy Brown , and myself. Our first book is HTML5 For Web Designers , by the indomitable Jeremy Keith . If you’re already getting your feet wet with HTML5, or just trying to figure out what the hell it’s all about, you’ll want this one. I’ve read it three times and love how approachable it is. You can read more from Jeffrey about how we chose our first title , or from Mandy on how A Book Apart works as a publisher . … Read the rest here
HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith
HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith : A Book Apart’s inaugural title. I have a preview copy and it’s worth every penny of the $18 USD you’ll pay for yours. Orders ship in June. … Read the rest here
Announcing HTML5 For Web Designers
For the third time in my life, I have written a book. HTML5 For Web Designers is available for pre-order now from A Book Apart . That’s right—the same lovely people who brought you A List Apart are now delivering good ol’-fashioned dead tree publications. The quality and craftsmanship of the resultant book is, as you would expect, stratospherically high. How could it not be given the team of superheroes who put it together: Jason Santa Maria is the designer, Mandy Brown is the editor and Jeffrey Zeldman oversaw the whole process. Working with them has been an honour and a pleasure… Read the rest here