A great post by Stuart on the prospect of DRM-by-any-other-name in HTML.
The argument has been made that if the web doesn’t embrace this stuff, people won’t stop watching videos: they’ll just go somewhere other than the web to get them, and that is a correct argument. But what is the point in bringing people to the web to watch their videos, if in order to do so the web becomes platform-specific and unopen and balkanised?
You’re probably doing each of these already but just in case your’e not, Andy has listed six quick wins you can get from HTML5.
Bruce takes a look at the tricky issue of styling native form controls. Help us, Shadow DOM, you’re our only hope!
A good explanation of HTML5’s sectioning content and outline algorithm.
Bruce sits down for a chat with Hixie. This is a good insight into the past and present process behind HTML.
Tantek has put together a wiki page to document the arguments for and against adding a new “main” element to HTML.
A really nice explanation by Todd Kloots of Twitter’s use of progressive enhancement with Ajax and the HTML5 History API. There’s even a shout for Hijax in there.
Andrea looks at support for HTML5 input types in IE10 Mobile.
A worrying look at how modern web developers approach accessibility. In short, they don’t.
I had a lot of fun chatting with Chris and Dave on the Shop Talk Show. It is now available for your listening and huffduffing pleasure.
James Craig is a mensch. This is how you give feedback to a working group.
Bruce’s thoughts on the proposed inclusion of a “content” or “maincontent” element in HTML5.
Personally, I don’t think there’s much point in adding a new element when there’s an existing attribute (role=”main”) that does exactly the same thing.
Also, I don’t see much point in adding an element that can only be used once and only once in a document. However, if a “content” or “maincontent” element could be used inside any sectioning content (section, article, nav, aside), then I could see it being far more useful.
Bruce writes about a worrying trend in standards work:
Tossing a specification that you’ve written in-house, in secret and already implemented onto a table at W3C, saying “here, standardise this” as you saunter past isn’t a Get Out of Jail Free card for proprietary misdemeanours. And it isn’t standardisation.
A look at the new pseudo-classes in CSS3 that go hand-in-hand with the form enhancements introduced in HTML5.
Richard gives the lowdown on the new translate attribute in HTML.
This looks like a handy resource with a shitty, shitty name. Count the number of items that are in HTML (or JavaScript or APIs). Now count the number of items that are in CSS.
This helps to clarify the difference between native semantics and ARIA additions.
Some future-friendly musings on mobile from Mozilla and Yahoo.
Here’s a geek advent calendar I missed. There are some great CSS techniques here.
An in-depth look at browser polyfills: what they are, how they work, and how you can make your own.
It’s responsive. It looks great. It’s using HTML5 structural elements and microformats.
This is a great response to my recent post about semantics in HTML. Steve explores the accessibility implications. I heartily concur with his rallying cry at the end:
Get involved!
A fun platform game with a twist.
A very even-handed look at the time and data debacle in HTML5.
A single-serving website expressing the frustration and bewilderment at Hixie’s unilateral decision to drop the time element from HTML.
The HTML5 doctors are hosting a copy Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into HTML5 at http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/ and they plan to keep it updated via Github.
This is such a great idea: magnetic HTML elements. And now Cameron is sharing the source files so that we can all print our own.
I never expected to see a cross between responsive design and AR, but here ya go:
A silly mashup of HTML5 technologies: We use the canvas to capture the contents of a video element. The canvas then identifies the blue markers and overlays an iframe on top of it. The iframe contains our website (upperdog.se) which has a responsive design.
A real-world anecdote from Jonathan illustrates some of the misconceptions around using HTML instead of going native. A lot of people don’t realise that web apps can store data offline.
It’s Opera …but it’s folk.
This just launched at the Breaking Development conference: another site that uses the term HTML5 to include CSS and Ajax. Still, despite its inaccurate nomenclature, it’s a useful compatibility table of device support in mobile browsers.
Nicole provides a step-by-step explanation of why it will probably benefit you to add classes to your headings to ensure consistent styling without writing overly-verbose CSS.
A brave attempt to explain the new outline algorithm in HTML (although it inaccurately states that no browsers have support for it—Firefox shipped with it a while back).
You can safely skip the comments: most of them are discouraging, ignorant, and frankly, just plain stupid.
A handy one-page cheatsheet for using HTML5’s appcache manifest file for offline storage.
A collection of experiments in typography using canvas, SVG, JavaScript and whatever else it takes.
A really nice little primer on getting started with HTML5.
A great reminder from Bruce that we need to remember to use cutting-edge web technology responsibly.
Listen to Josh explain a genuinely useful example of HTML5’s local storage that he’s added to Fontdeck.
Leonie points to a change in the semantics of the a element in HTML5 that could be very handy for accessible navigation.
A great round-up by Richard of some of the most common semantic pitfalls encountered with HTML5.
This is your one-stop shop for envelope-pushing in the browser:
The very best of creative JavaScript and HTML5.
Everything you ever needed to know about adding HTML5 audio and video to your site, courtesy of the mighty John Allsopp.
A fascinating examination by Hixie of web technologies that may have technically been “better” than HTML, but still found themselves subsumed into the simpler, more straightforward, good ol’ hypertext markup language.
The follow-on comments are definitely worth a read too.
I really like the thinking that’s gone into the design of Github, as shown in this presentation. It’s not really about responsive design as we commonly know it, but boy, is it a great deep dive into the importance of URLs and performance.
An excellent explanation from Richard of the bdi element (bi-directional isolate) for handling a mixture of left to right and right to left languages in HTML5.
An even-handed weighing up of the pros and cons of native and web app development for mobile.
A handy list of regular expressions that you can use in the new pattern attribute on the input element in HTML5.
Mike takes on the very tricky task of explaining the new outline algorithm—definitely one of the hardest features of HTML5 to explain, in my opinion.
A bookmarklet to help you figure out what files you might want to put in your cache manifest for offline storage.
John has written a very in-depth look at offline storage (using the cache manifest) in HTML5.
I’m getting behind Oli’s proposal to allow non-quoted footers within blockquotes in HTML. Here’s where I quote the design principles to support his case.
A handy mobile-friendly list from Mike Stenhouse of which fish are currently having their stocks depleted. It uses offline storage so once you’ve visited once, you’ll be able to pull it up anywhere.
Now this is how you make progress on getting changes made to a spec: by documenting real-world use cases.
A look at some of the new HTML5/JavaScript additions coming in the next version of Mobile Safari.
An excellent article from Oli on markup patterns for quotations …though I still think that the cite element can be used for people’s names.
Derek runs some tests on how screenreaders behave when block-level elements are wrapped in links, which is now legal in HTML5.
Chloe’s redesign/realign is a lovely bit of HTML5 and CSS3 all wrapped up in a responsive layout.
This dovetails nicely with my recent post about the spirit of distributed collaboration. Here’s a great little bit of near-history spelunking from Paul, all about styling new HTML5 elements in pesky older versions of Internet Explorer.
A good round-up by Jack Osborne of where things currently stand with the hgroup group.
Ben Buchanan has a nice round-up of some of the options available when you’re switching over to HTML5.
Mark Pilgrim translates Dean Hachamovitch’s utterly bizarre and nonsensical announcement of IE10 that kept talking about “native HTML5.”
You can now borrow HTML5 For Web Designers through the Open Library. Nice one, George!
An excellent zero-edit counter-proposal from Anne detailing why version numbers are unnecessary and undesirable for HTML.
A rather vicious evaluation of browser support for the audio element and the audio API. It is divided up into:
A very pretty visualisation of tweets on a map using canvas.
A nice’n’small lazy loader that should make life easier when it comes to pollyfilling browser support for nifty HTML5 or CSS3 features.
Some excellent cross-polination between HTML5 and internationalisation — remember the other two Ws that come before Web in WWW.
A beautifully readable subset of the HTML spec, with an emphasis on writing web apps (and with information intended for browser makers has been removed). Very handy indeed!
A nice succinct description of the placeholder attribute, with an emphasis on accessibility.
A great round-up of some of the humbler new elements in HTML.
Tantek is as disappointed as I am with the buzzword-compliant definition of HTML5 being pushed by the W3C.
Instead of providing precision and clarity, they’ve muddied the definition of HTML5 further with yet another “here’s our bucket of things we like which we’re going to call ‘HTML5’” message.
The spec previously known as HTML5 is now simply HTML. Good. The W3C are now free to abuse the term “HTML5” to mean everything under the sun.
The new HTML5 logo is quite versatile.
Curiously, though, the standards group—the very people one might expect to have the narrowest interpretation of what exactly HTML5 means—instead say it stands for a swath of new Web technologies extending well beyond the next version of Hypertext Markup Language.
Lumping everything together is as silly as a carpenter referring to every tool in their toolkit as “a hammer.”
Anna’s redesign is beautiful, no matter what browser or device you’re using.
A great little jQuery script to automatically assign ARIA roles to HTML5 elements with the corresponding semantics.
This is the webpage of a great presentation on HTML5 and CSS3. It is also the presentation itself.
A Mac app for creating animations with canvas and video.
A handy shim for audio: it uses the native implementation where possible and Flash as a fallback.
Bobbie is publishing the interviews he conducted with various HTML5 bods when he was researching his Technology Review article. First up: Hixie.
A delightful online book that makes excellent use of HTML5's history API.
A quick run-through of some of the new HTML5 form features coming in Firefox 4.
All the tests and all the results, all in one place.
A plug-in for Illustrator that allows you to export to canvas.
Here's a little piece of web history: the proposal that was presented and rejected at the 2004 W3C workshop that led to the formation of the WHATWG.
A handy table of new HTML5 elements and whether or not they are exposed to assistive technology.
I couldn't agree more with this rant from Remy. He took the words right out of my mouth.
By playing this canvas game, you can help the European Space Agency plan missions to the planets of our solar system.
Edit this page. Then view source.
A great little platform game that is entirely Flash-free. Canvas all the way.
Liza and co. did a fantastic job converting my book. I doff my cap.
A very handy page for showing HTML5 form element support in your browser.
A beautiful SVG visualisation (with source code) of the Rattle team's experience of dConstruct 2010.
A nifty interactive video for Arcade Fire's "We Used To Wait." It claims to be built in HTML5 but actually uses XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 doctypes throughout. *sigh*
Zoot alors! Mon book is high in the iTunes Store Français. Quelle surprise!
Well, well, well. It looks like h264 is not going to be torpedoing us with any submarine patents anytime soon ...but this only applies to end users, not browser makers. Sigh.
Cute illustration of different content types in HTML (though, personally, I would put sectioning content — section, article, nav, aside — into their own group).
HTML5 resources, gathered together in one place.
A great post from the frontline of markup. This is just a taste of the confusion to come.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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