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The W3C have unveiled a logo for HTML5 . I’m not sure the world needs such a logo, but I think it looks pretty good. It reminds me of some of the promotional materials used by the Web Standards Project back in the day—simple bold lines that work well at small sizes, with a whiff of Russian constructivism. But I take issue with the scope of what this logo is supposed to represent. From the Frequently Asked Questions : The logo is a general-purpose visual identity for a broad set of open web technologies, including HTML5, CSS, SVG, WOFF, and others. What. … Read the rest here

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The W3C have unveiled a logo for HTML5 . I’m not sure the world needs such a logo, but I think it looks pretty good. It reminds me of some of the promotional materials used by the Web Standards Project back in the day—simple bold lines that work well at small sizes, with a whiff of Russian constructivism. But I take issue with the scope of what this logo is supposed to represent. From the Frequently Asked Questions : The logo is a general-purpose visual identity for a broad set of open web technologies, including HTML5, CSS, SVG, WOFF, and others. … Read the rest here

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One of the many form enhancements provided by HTML5 is the datalist element . It allows you to turn a regular input field into a combo-box . Using the list attribute on an input , you can connect it to a datalist with the corresponding ID. The datalist itself contains a series of option elements. <input list=”suggestions”> <datalist id=”suggestions”> <option value=”foo”></option> <option value=”bar”></option> <option value=”baz”></option> </datalist> I can imagine a number of use cases for this: “Share this” forms, like the one on Last.fm, that allow you to either select from your contacts on the site, or enter email addresses, separated by commas. … Read the rest here

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One of the many form enhancements provided by HTML5 is the datalist element . It allows you to turn a regular input field into a combo-box . Using the list attribute on an input , you can connect it to a datalist with the corresponding ID. The datalist itself contains a series of option elements. <input list=”suggestions”> <datalist id=”suggestions”> <option value=”foo”></option> <option value=”bar”></option> <option value=”baz”></option> </datalist> I can imagine a number of use cases for this: “Share this” forms, like the one on Last.fm, that allow you to either select from your contacts on the site, or enter email addresses, separated by commas. Using input type=”email” with a multiple attribute, in combination with a datalist would work nicely… Read the rest here

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David made a comment on Twitter about some markup he was working on: Feels dirty setting id’s on main HTML5 page header and footer, but overriding inheritance they cause seems needlessly laborious. I know the feeling. I don’t like using IDs at all, unless I want part of a document to be addressable through the fragment identifier portion of the URL. While I think it’s desirable to use the id attribute to create in-document permalinks, I don’t think it’s desirable to use the id attribute just as a styling hook. Its high specificity may seem a blessing but, in my experience, it quickly leads to duplicated CSS… Read the rest here

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David made a comment on Twitter about some markup he was working on: Feels dirty setting id’s on main HTML5 page header and footer, but overriding inheritance they cause seems needlessly laborious. I know the feeling. I don’t like using IDs at all, unless I want part of a document to be addressable through the fragment identifier portion of the URL. While I think it’s desirable to use the id attribute to create in-document permalinks, I don’t think it’s desirable to use the id attribute just as a styling hook. … Read the rest here

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It was close to four years ago now that I first floated (ha!), publicly refined , and then published at its own home what’s become known as the “Eric Meyer Reset”. At the time, I expected it would be of interest to a small portion of the standards community, provoke some thought among fellow craftspeople, and get used occasionally when it seemed handy. Instead, it’s ended up almost everywhere. (This occasionally backfires on me when people use it in the CSS of e-mail campaigns, it’s exposed by older mail clients, and people then mail me to demand that I unsubscribe them from the mailing list. But that’s not the worst backfire—I’ll get to that in just a minute.) Four years is long enough for a revisit, I’d say… Read the rest here

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Lead Web Developer at Hoefler & Frere-Jones : If you

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HTML5. You keep using that word. In a comment on one of Jeffrey

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…that having been the original working title for “ Prefix or Posthack “, my latest article for A List Apart . (Sort of like Return of the Jedi had a working title of Blue Harvest .) In a fairly quick read, I make the case that vendor prefixes are not only good, they have the potential to be great and to deliver greater interoperability and advancement of CSS. So far the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, which frankly came as a bit of a surprise. The annoyance factor of prefixes is undeniable, and it’s been my experience that annoyance dramatically hardens opposition regardless of whether or not there are good reasons to oppose. … Read the rest here

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While I agree with Neven Mrgan’s Walled Gardens , I feel like the whole imagery of walled gardens is a bit of a metaphorical stretch

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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

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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

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Every so often I’ll read something on the web that somebody else has written and I’ll think Yes! That! That’s what I’ve been trying to say! I’ve already told of experiencing just that whilst reading Raiding Eternity . Now I’ve experienced it again. This time the culprit is Ben Ward , the talented bastard. He reeled me in with the synopsis of his latest article. It’s called Understand The Web : Perceptions of the web are changing. People are advocating that we treat the web like another application framework. … Read the rest here

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A Day Apart in Seattle was more like a seminar than a workshop. Rather than being an intimate gathering in a small room, it was more lecture-like in an amphitheatre setting. But that didn’t stop me interacting with the attendees. There were plenty of great questions throughout, and I also had everyone complete an exercise. I reprised the exercise I gave at dConstruct back in September. It isn’t a test of the audience… Read the rest here

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This second contest, much like the first , offers you a chance to win an iPad 16GB Wi-Fi (valued at $499 USD). It requires less cash but more effort. Contest #2: Win an iPad 16GB To have a shot at winning, here

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I’m pleased to announce Ethan and I are bringing the Handcrafted CSS workshop to Nashville ! We’ll reprise of the one-day course we organized last September here in Salem, Massachusetts and again last November in London with Carsonified . As always, each attendee will get a copy of the book ( Handcrafted CSS: Video Edition including the DVD ) and we’ll spend the day walking through much of its content and more. This event was a great success in New England and Old England, and we’re thrilled to bring it south, to Tennessee. So join us on June 21st at the historic Hermitage Hotel right smack in downtown Nashville (steps away from the famed Ryman Auditorium and other sights). For more info on the event and to book a place (there’s a max of 100 spots), visit the Handcrafted CSS Workshop site . … Read the rest here

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I hereby declare April to be HTML5 Month

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Leave it to PPK to come out with a bold statement like, " CSS vendor prefixes considered harmful ". Moreso, It’s time to abolish all vendor prefixes. They’ve become solutions for which there is no problem, and they are actively harming web standards. The problem is that they are necessary. Look at Safari’s implementation of border-radius compared to the rest. I still can’t remember if it’s border-radius-topleft or border-top-left-radius . … Read the rest here

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On Banknote Design for Wired