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HTML5 Video – Attributes and Events

seangw — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:13:10 +0000

When working with the new HTML5 video tag, the official documentation is very confusing. We just want a list of attributes and events! I ran across an excellent resource, HTML 5 Video – DOM Attributes and Events at chipwreck. From the post (this is incomplete, please go to the source for a full list): Display [...]

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HTTP Archive: Average Webpage now 965 KB (up 30%) in 2011

seangw — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:31:54 +0000

ExtremeTech published an article, The web in 2011: HTML5 dominates Flash, trouble for data capped mobile surfers. From the article: According to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans the internet’s most popular destinations, the average size of a single web page is now 965 kilobytes (KB), up more than 30% from last year’s [...]

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Internet Explorer 9: New browser, Same Problems – IE9 HTML5 Failures

seangw — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:08:26 +0000

Way back when, in the times of HTML 4, and CSS was just getting started we worked with IE6. IE6 required us to do everything differently, because of the ways things were implemented. They just had to be different. Fast forward to 2011. The world is rapidly expanding use of an incomplete spec, HTML5, and [...]

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Notes on IE9 for Web Developers

seangw — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:54:44 +0000

I’m reading through the Interoperable HTML Parsing in IE9 blog post on MSDN and there are some nice, and some not so nice things. The following are some subjects talked about, and what it means for us web developers. Generic Elements The full support of “generic elements” is fantastic for us HTML5 web developers. We [...]

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Google Translate’s Toolbar: How to disable the banner

seangw — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:19:00 +0000

Working with multiple languages is tough, one of the great tools is Google Translate Tools. It lets you specify which languages and make them available on your site. Unfortunately once you are viewing a page written NOT in your browser’s native language, it pops up automatically. The banner that pops up pushes your site content [...]

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Google Code University: Free Courses, Tutorials and Lectures for Web Development – AJAX, HTML5, HTML, CSS, Javascript and more

seangw — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:51 +0000

I grew up with webmonkey as the single best destination for web developers and any tutorial you could want, but just saw that Google has a Google Code University featuring Tutorials, Contributed course content and Video lectures on: Web Programming HTML CSS Javascript AJAX HTML5 Web Security (yes, web developers should be well versed in [...]

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Basic jQuery Tutorial: Modify CSS classes and attributes, Hover and Toggle example

seangw — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:34:45 +0000

This tutorial will cover: Modifying CSS attributes with jQuery Setting a class for a page element Removing a class from a page element Testing if a class exists A quick toggle click behavior example The final example will use all of the other elements in a single exercise. There are many more things you can [...]

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HTML Zen Coding: Speed up HTML creation

seangw — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:14:20 +0000

HTML Zen Coding is a plugin for many popular HTML editors that gives the web developer many tools for quickly building out HTML pages. If you are comfortable (and enjoy) CSS selectors popular today in many frameworks (such as jQuery) then this may be for you. When we build HTML documents, we are always building [...]

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HTML 5 Presentation on HTML5

seangw — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:54:37 +0000

Saw a great HTML5 presentation today at Apirocks.com: HTML5 Presentation. Has tons of useful demos of new HTML5 technologies that you can actually USE TODAY. The presentation covers: New JS selectors Javascript web storage (localStorage) JS access to SQL databases (openDatabase, transaction, executeSql) Javascript application caching (applicationCache) Javascript web workers (Worker) JS sockets (WebSocket, onopen, [...]

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HTML Fadein Fadeout: Basic Javascript/AJAX Tutorial using jQuery’s fadeTo

seangw — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:24:19 +0000

In this tutorial we will review: Basic document jQuery preparation Binding jQuery actions to an anchor (A) tag Fading In and Fading Out html elements with Javascript/AJAX If you want some more basic information you can check out some of my other jQuery basic tutorials: Basic AJAX Tutorial: jQuery toggle and slide – Includes AJAX [...]

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