You read that right. One day after the W3C’s earth-shaking announcement to brand HTML5 with a new logo… The WHATWG announces that HTML5 will no longer exist. Hey, Ian Hickson says that the WHATWG works closely with the W3C — but now I have to wonder. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘HTML5’
HTML5 is Dead
Thursday, January 20th, 2011HTML5 Grows up and gets a Logo
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
The W3C revealed the new HTML5 logo designed by Ocupop, a design firm in Hawaii that looks to me listens to too much Jack Johnson… (more…)
Video: How to Build Web Apps
Monday, January 10th, 2011A new video is posted from the January 4th 2011 Club AJAX meeting. Basic and advanced code for Ajax apps. The main subjects covered were CSS organizing, and OO-CSS concepts, and an HTML5 Video Player with custom JavaScript.
Presentation: How to get a Job as a Front End Developer
Monday, December 6th, 2010I’m posting my presentation from last month’s meeting on how to get a job in the industry. This was a very thought-out presentation, as I felt a need to answer several questions that gets asked of me often – the most predominant of which was “How do I get started?”. This is not a tutorial on how to learn JavaScript, but more of a step by step process in what you should learn and where, and how you would then apply that knowledge to a career or even just side work.
- Skills and subsets needed to be hirable
- How and where to learn FED Skills
- Job search preparation
- Where to find job openings
- How to write a resume
- How to be a good interview
Much of this information applies to other fields as well (though if you’re not interested in Ajax, I’m not sure that you are reading this blog!). How to write a resume in particular has some insights that I’m guessing, based on some of the resumes that I’ve seen, may be of value to a lot of people.
HTML5 Video Mysteries Explained
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010There can be a cloud of mystery surrounding new technologies. HTML5 Video is especially problematic since it is not just one technology, there are multiple codecs and file formats. When is a good time to adopt? Is it possible that you can adopt too late or too soon?
In this IBM developerWorks article, I show the progression of the early days of the Internet and choppy, “cross your fingers and hope it works” digital video to its current state of the browser vendors attempting to reclaim native video from the Adobe Flash plugin.
The idea behind HTML5 Video was simplicity… but the current result is not so simple. This article defines some of the difficult video terminology to make it easier to understand how it works, so that you can look at today’s fragmented situation and still make the best decisions for you or your company.
I’m also quite honored to have had my blog voted as best article of the week, and displayed prominently on the Web Development front page.
Article: Introduction to HTML5 Video
You may also be interested in the video and the presentation upon which this article was based.
Video: HTML5 Canvas Tips and Tricks
Friday, September 10th, 2010In this introductory level video by Bob Byron, you will learn the basics of the HTML5 Canvas capabilities, how to write the code, and other tips and tricks for working with dynamic raster graphics.
Plain Text vs innerText vs textContent
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010innerText and textContent are properties that get or set the text of an element or all its children. Internet Explorer implemented innerText in version 4.0, and it’s a useful, if misunderstood feature. WebKit also has innerText, carefully copying from, and even improving upon IE; and additionally has the standards compliant textContent, which we shall see, is no where near as useful and is in fact quite different. Firefox has textContent but not innerText, and a common mistake is writing code that retrieves one or the other, assuming the result will be the same (it’s not). Opera has the property, but it is little more than an alias of textContent, which to me is analogous to false advertising.
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Apple Rumored to Move to New Video Codec
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010A few weeks ago I gave a presentation on HTML5 Video, and suggested that Apple may be the new evil empire for getting the world hooked on the H264 MPEG codec, and then collect massive royalties a few years later.
Why Your Company Needs A Front End Developer
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Business often places most, if not all, of their development efforts on the server side. As companies start a development project, focus is usually given to the data that supports their idea, its security, and the business logic. The problem is, this strategy misses the holistic approach that a front end developer offers. The front end guy is often considered the guy who “makes things pretty”. While this description is based on a kernel of truth, it’s more of a stereotype. It’s about as accurate as describing the server-dev as the guy who just “serves data”.
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Video: HTML5 Video Explained
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010From the July Club AJAX meeting: What is HTML5 Video and how is it different from what we are used to? What problems does it solve, and what issues does it have? Since it doesn’t require a plugin does that mean it’s all open source? In this presentation, we will address these questions and provide some basic terminology for understanding how video works. We’ll show how to embed HTML5 Video API and explore the API, and discuss browser compatibility. Finally, we’ll go over video encoding possibilities.
