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HTML5 Live in NYC
On Tuesday, November 9th, Krish Mandal, Eric Fitchett, Paul Hurlock and I attended an event in New York called HTML5 Live. My intentions going into this were to get a better understanding of HTML5,...
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HTML5 Video is a great thing. There is a built in player in all of the major browsers, and ideally, it should be to throw a video on the page with the new video tag. No more outside hosting or...
View ArticleDesigning for Mobile First
Designing for responsive layouts has been a big topic lately. I’ve been reading up on it a lot, and have officially been won over to a side. I believe that starting small and working upwards in size is...
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Good Design is Accessibility.
Introduction Accessibility isn’t always about ARIA roles and text to speech, it’s often about simply good design. There is a range of disabilities that need to be considered when working with the web....
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Visibility: hidden vs. Display: none
During a recent project I kept coming up against strange issues with layout. It was in a windows 8 store app, and therefore using some advanced CSS3 techniques, so I assumed I was just having issues...
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HTML: The Very Basics
The language of the modern web is HTML5. It’s a great thing. You probably don’t understand why yet, but you will. Our most basic page: That’s really boring, you might say. Well yes, it is. If you...
View ArticleBrowsers: The Very Basics – Part 1
Brief (but required) history lesson: Back when IE had 90% or so of the market share, browsers were essentially an enigma. It was hard to know exactly how things worked. Now that open source browsers...
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Error handling: One of the reasons that HTML standards are so important is because HTML is a language that has historically been written with a lot of errors and now has many different versions. One of...
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Block vs. Inline Elements: The very basics
A lot of confusion surrounds the concept of block and inline elements, and its not unusual for this confusion to persist indefinitely. I’m hopefully going to clarify this tiny but influential...
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