Five Things You Should Know About HTML5. You are here: Home Dive Into HTML5 1. It’s not one big thing You may well ask: “How can I start using HTML5 if older browsers don’t support it?” But the question itself is misleading. HTML5 is not one big thing; it is a collection of individual features. So you can’t detect “HTML5 support,” because that doesn’t make any sense. You may think of HTML as tags and angle brackets. Chapter 2 and Appendix A will teach you how to properly detect support for each new HTML5 feature. 2. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny that HTML 4 is the most successful markup format ever. Now, if you want to improve your web applications, you’ve come to the right place. Read all the gory details about HTML5 forms in Chapter 9. 3. “Upgrading” to HTML5 can be as simple as changing your doctype.
Upgrading to the HTML5 doctype won’t break your existing markup, because obsolete elements previously defined in HTML 4 will still render in HTML5. 4. 5. Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in the early 1990s.
Quplog. Ajaxian. Persuasion Triggers in Web Design - Smashing Magazine. The Escapers. Flux 3 for all your online design? Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X. Good question. Coda is everything you need to hand-code a website, in one beautiful app. While the pitch is simple, building Coda was anything but. How do you elegantly wrap everything together? Well, we did it. And today, Coda has grown to be a critical tool for legions of web developers around the world. More than anything else, Coda is a text editor. It’s got everything you expect: syntax highlighting for tons of languages. But an incredible text editor is just a nice typewriter if you can’t easily handle all of your files — from anywhere.
Then you’ll want to see what your code looks like. Believe it or not, we’ve just scratched the surface. Finally, hiding behind the Plus button in the tab bar is a built-in Terminal and MySQL editor, two amazingly powerful Tab Tools. And it’s all wrapped up in our Sites, which get you started quickly. Coda is a very good app. Espresso. Making the Switch from Coda to Espresso. [tweetmeme] During the last of our IM discussions related to the theme upgrade, I told Preshit that I worked my bit of the upgrade entirely using MacRabbit’s Espresso. He was surprised, to say the least. Everyone knows me as a Coda fanboy, so did I ditch it just like that? I’ve always seen Espresso as sort of the underpowered in comparison with Coda. Coda is feature rich, has a splendid user interface, so why switch to something sub-standard? Lately though Coda has been showing its age, especially improvements in the world of HTML and CSS, and its user interface felt a little too heavy, given the current trend towards minimalism.
Moreover, with Espresso’s 1.1 update, things were looking good for this new kid on the block. So I gave it a serious run-through by doing the theme upgrade entirely in Espresso. I like Espresso The Espresso way of doing things take time getting used to, especially for someone moving from Coda. Coda is fantastic.