Tag Archives: html5
Behind the Websites: HTML5: I couldn’t (quite) do it
December 13, 2010
I found it difficult to use pure and semantic HTML5 when dealing with current versions of Internet Explorer. I really tried to adopt the commonly advocated view that it’s okay to require website visitors have JavaScript enabled but settled on a different option I could actually live with.
Tags: Accessibility, CSS, html, html5, JavaScript, usability
Behind the Websites: Selectivizr with CSS on a sub-domain
October 25, 2010
Updating the Soupgiant base WordPress theme recently (among other things we were porting it to HTML5), we needed to decide which shims and/or polyfills to use. We starterd with Remy Sharp’s HTML5 enabling script but another to consider was Selectivizr to improve IE‘s support of CSS3 selectors.
Behind the Websites: HTML5 for Web Designers
September 3, 2010
The first release from publisher A Book Apart does exactly what I would hope for from the people who brought us the excellent A List Apart online magazine. It simplifies a topic and gets me excited about using new web technologies.
Behind the Websites: Valid Isn’t Best Practice
June 9, 2010
Not long ago, on the @soupgiant account, I tweeted “Vaild html / css doesn’t indicate your code is best practice; it may even indicate the opposite. #css3″. Neither the xHTML nor the CSS on this site validates, we consider it to observe best practices.
Tags: Accessibility, browsers, html5, input types, standards, xhtml