Monthly Archives: August 2011
Posted on August 23rd, 2011 in category: Tips and Tricks
Mozilla, a true believer in web based solutions, introduces an API to bridge the gap between Apps on your mobile phone or tablet and web based solutions. This API will allow you to use mobile specific features directly on your web site such as the phone’s Accelerometers and Camera.
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Posted on August 22nd, 2011 in category: Tips and Tricks
Custom attributes are often a great way to set and retrieve data from JavaScript which is specific to the HTML element. You have been able to get away with using custom attributes but not without upsetting the validators, in HTML5 this is possible.
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Posted on August 20th, 2011 in category: Tips and Tricks
A problem with HTML5 is the time it takes to implement it, there’s a lot of cool HTML5 stuff which isn’t very widely supported yet and some which you actually already can use. Caniuse.com is a site where you can search for HTML tags to find out if they’re supported.
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Posted on August 14th, 2011 in category: Tutorials
In today’s mobile world where the your users are gets more and more interesting when developing interactive web sites. W3C has realized this and thanks to HTML5 it’s now easier than ever to retrieve your users’ position.
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Posted on August 8th, 2011 in category: Tutorials
Sometimes it might be useful to play an alert message when something happens on you site, for example when a message arrives in your web based chat application. This is quite easy to implement thanks to HTML5, in this short tutorial I will show you how.
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Posted on August 6th, 2011 in category: Tips and Tricks
Convert your audio files from OGG to MP3 or vice versa for usage with the HTML5 audio tag with my new HTML5 audio converter.
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Posted on August 5th, 2011 in category: Tips and Tricks
Some guys at Mozilla has been working with creating a native JavaScript library to render PDF just using HTML5 and JavaScript, that’s right no external PDF reader is necessary. Let’s have a look at that.
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Posted on August 3rd, 2011 in category: Tips and Tricks
A beautifully designed website can easily look dull if the content lacks images and graphics, but creating icons can be really time consuming, that’s way Iconfinder is so useful.
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Posted on August 2nd, 2011 in category: Tips and Tricks
Seems like even Adobe thinks it’s time to leave Flash and Silverlight on the web to move over to the open HTML5 and CSS3 standards as they’re now releasing a HTML5 development tool called Adobe Edge.
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