Keep up to speed on the latest developments in HTML5 and CSS3. See what others are saying about the next revolution of the web with snippets and articles from around the blogosphere.
WebAppers have released a fantastic article on 70 must have HTML5 and CSS3 tutorials and resources. There are some obvious links in there, but also quite a lot of hidden gems to tickle your fancy. This is invaluable reading to anyone serious about learning more about HTML5 or CSS3. Bonus points to those who read Jon Tang(erine)’s “Preparing For HTML5 With Semantic Class Names”.
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An interesting article here again from the doctor, this time on one of the new additions to the HTML5 specification. The dialog element provides a way to markup conversation in a semantic fashion, and interestingly enough could be used to markup comment threads. Update: It can’t be used to markup comments. Now that sucks.
There’s only one problem I have with it and that’s the fact that it’s order dependant at this stage…and perhaps the fact that it’s spelt “dialog” and not “dialogue”.
By the way, why is it dialog and not dialogue? Is this a concession to US users?
I bet all you kids out there were just wondering what CSS3 you can actually use right this very minute, right? Funny you should ask that…
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Interesting news here from Softpedia, which if to be believed would suggest that even more support for HTML5 and CSS3 is on its way to the public shortly. Changes to the Firefox 3.6 nightlies were recently pushed that enabled the brand new HTML5 parsing engine, and support for CSS3 additions such as background-size, gradients, multiple background images and the rem unit.
With exciting progress in competing browsers, it was only a matter of time before a Firefox release with similar momentum in HTML5 and CSS3 features was born.
This video it a tad old now, it was posted after Google I/O conference, but for those who haven’t seen it, it’s a great introduction to herald in the newest features of HTML5. Better give up the stage to Matthew Papakipos.
Learn about new features in HTML5 that enhance and enrich the web experience. Learn about new features in HTML5, how they’ll be supported in Chrome, and our latest plans for new functionality. The web browser is quickly evolving into a rich platform with access to all the capabilities that your computer has to offer. This talk will help you understand what is possible and how to write applications that use the latest APIs.
Here’s the very latest transcript for the latest progress on the CSS side of things. Mainly it looks to be updates to the CSS2.1 specification (examples only, no methodology changes), but hopefully the progress will pick up in the coming days.
@unfinitydesign: Has anybody told you that you need a serious freaking break after this is all finished?
@Hixie: indeed!
An interesting change to the specification here, it seems that the ping attribute in HTML5 is alive and well and now has its very own mimetype to boot. Pings sent using the ping attribute are now to use the text/ping MIME Type when sending the request, which takes the form of a POST request with the body set to “PING”.
I’m wondering how this will all go down with the anti-privacy zealots as well.
All relevant cookie and HTTP authentication headers must be included in the request. Which other headers are required depends on the URLs involved.
Seeing as it seems that HTML5 has slowed to an almost unfathomable standstill and nothing that amazing or revolutionary has come of the last few days of work by the editors, this is a simply post to direct you to the changelog for this month, whereby you can view all the latest edits to the draft specification.
Interesting page full of HTML5 tests here from Remy Sharp, or as those may also know him, the HTML5 doctor. It generally does a good job at putting the new additions to the test, and makes it simple enough that most anybody could try them. I made a suggestion to him via Twitter that would make the web workers test a little more realistic, but we’ll see if it gets changed…
