Category: HTML5
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Big Web Show Today
Live today at 1:00 PM Eastern, watch Jeremy Keith, author of HTML5 For Web Designers, discuss markup and other matters with Dan Benjamin and me on The Big Web Show. Your live calls are welcome.…
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HTML5 For Web Designers
WHEN MANDY BROWN, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author forthe job. Nothing else, not even “real fonts” or CSS3,…
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Link Relations in HTML5
Mark Pilgrim has turned the WHAT Working Group’s blog into a tool of genuine outreach and tremendously helpful (even entertaining) information. His “Road to HTML5” column “explain[s] … new elements, attributes, and other features in…
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Web charts with HTML5 + Flash
ZingChart hopes to end the war between HTML5 and Flash in web-based charting: Today we launched the first charting library that renders charts and graphs in both HTML5 <canvas> and Flash. Rather than join the…
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An Event Apart Seattle
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E-books, Flash, and Standards
In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they…
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Betting on the web
Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the “war” between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that build best-of-breed experiences atop lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the…
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Flash, iPad, Standards
Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don’t support Flash…
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Three Days in Seattle
Three, count ’em, three days of design, code, and content. That’s what we’ve got lined up for you in beautiful Seattle, Washington. Including a special one-day workshop on HTML5 and CSS3, led by Jeremy Keith…
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A Zing Too Far
Fred Blasdel said: You’ll always draw ire for having stumbled into being the Chief of the cargo-cult side of Web Standards, with so-called ‘XHTML’ as the false idol. You did a lot of good, but…
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Beep ’n Me, Live
Join Ethan Marcotte and me tonight at 8:00 PM EDT on the CreativeXpert Live Show, an interview and podcast with live listener call-in via Skype and Twitter.
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Am I Blue
The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.
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HTML5 Redefines Footer
In response to the Super Friends’ request, the HTML5 working groups have redefined footer. This is a wonderful usability improvement to the spec.
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HTML5 For Smarties
The HTML5 specification runs on for over 900 pages, and much of what it covers, while vital to browser makers, is meaningless to people who create websites. If thousands of irrelevant details in the HTML5…