Five reasons why you should quote attribute values in HTML5
With HTML5, you don’t have to quote attribute values. Until you do.One of the benefits often touted for HTML5 over XHTML is what I once heard Paul Irish describe as its “loosey goosey” approach to...
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More HTML5 syntax and parser quirks you may not have known
Last week we looked at one of HTML5’s syntax quirks, the fact that you don’t need to quote attribute values (unless the values contain a space or as is less well known one of a number of other...
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WebRTC now in Chrome Beta for Android
Following Blackberry 10’s support for WebRTC, Chrome beta or Android now supports webRTC, as do Firefox, Opera and Chrome for desktop (and Firefox for Android though not as yet Firefox OS it would...
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Appcache, not so much a douchebag as a complete pain in the #$%^
A little while back, Jake Archibald wrote infamously (and anthropomorphically) that the HTML5 ApplicationCache is a “douchebag“[1]. Mindful that this is a word freighted with troubling significance, it...
View ArticleMaking Web Apps as Smooth as Native — video presentation by Andrew Betts
Right now creating high quality user experiences in HTML5 is very hard, and to get to where we are today we need a huge bundle of hacks and extreme techniques, many of which Andrew Betts covers in the...
View ArticleValidating forms with the HTML5 pattern attribute — video presentation by...
In the past, validating forms in the client has typically required doing some heavy lifting with JavaScript. But you may not know HTML5 changes all that. Browsers now check that the content of an input...
View ArticleWeb Components — video presentation from Mark Dalgleish
In a fast and furious fifteen minutes, Mark Dalgleish demystifies Web Components by highlighting how, despite its complex appearance, it's actually made up of a suite of technologies providing features...
View ArticleRyan Seddon — Web Components, The Future of Web Development
Get up to speed with Web Components and see how you can start using them today. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014. The post Ryan Seddon...
View ArticleAlex Feyerke — Offline First
Faster, more robust and more fun (web) apps. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014. The post Alex Feyerke — Offline First appeared first on...
View ArticleTantek Çelik — The Once and Future IndieWeb
Silos like Twitter and Facebook pose huge challenges for the longevity, integrity, and ultimately ownership of the content we create. If you care about these things, you need to checkout the IndieWeb....
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