Category: HTML5

  • Big Web Show Today

    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.…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers

    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,…

  • Link Relations in HTML5

    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…

  • Web charts with HTML5 + Flash

    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…

  • An Event Apart Seattle

    An Event Apart Seattle

  • E-books, Flash, and Standards

    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…

  • Betting on the web

    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…

  • Flash, iPad, Standards

    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…

  • Three Days in Seattle

    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…

  • A Zing Too Far

    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…

  • Beep ’n Me, Live

    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.

  • Am I Blue

    Am I Blue

    The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.

  • Chicago Deep Dish

    Chicago Deep Dish

    AEA Chicago, wrapped.

  • HTML5 Redefines Footer

    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.

  • HTML5 For Smarties

    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…