15 Useful Resources to Get Clued Up on HTML5. HTML5 this, HTML5 that! There’s been plenty of HTML5 talk around the blogging world recently. It’s no longer a tiny spec on the horizon, it’s due to arrive soon! Some have already embraced it and are using it on their latest sites. Want to join in on all the fun? HTML5 and The Future of the Web A good place to start for a dose of HTML5 goodness is this in-depth article from Smashing Magazine. Get Ready for HTML 5 For those wanting to read up on some more complicated HTML 5 features, A List Apart has an article covering everything you’d want to know about regular expressions, SVG graphics and the Canvas element. CSS code structure for HTML 5: some useful guidelines Woork provides some useful guidelines and examples in this post, showing how both HTML and CSS can be written to work together. HTML 5 Tutorial – A Simple Web Page Layout HTML5: The Basics (1 of 4) A Preview of HTML 5 Steve Smith on HTML5 and CSS3 HTML5 Doctor The Future of HTML 5 5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5.
HTML5 Rocks - A resource for open web HTML5 developers. HTML5 (including next generation additions still in development) CSS/(X)HTML Tutorial: Hovering Accessibility Jump Menu. Recently, a reader named Don asked about this theme’saccessibility(accesskey) jump menulocated at the top of each page. Several people have commented that they like the way the jump menu “lights up” upon gaining focus. Whenever a user hovers their cursor over the region at the top of the page, all links in the jump menu change to a more visible color. Then, as the cursor moves over the various menu items, each jump link is further highlighted with an even brighter color and an underline.
This progressive focusing is best seen in browsers that support the CSS:hover pseudo-class (e.g., Firefox, Opera, etc.), however the menu remains useful even in CSS-challenged browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer). In this article, I explain how the Perishable Press jump menu is built using Web standards via CSS and (X)HTML, and then provide the specific code required to emulate the jump menu as it appears here at Perishable Press. Step 1: The Markup Okay, looking good.
Very nice. Step 2: The Presentation. The Power of HTML 5 and CSS 3. Web designers can do some pretty cool stuff with HTML 4 and CSS 2.1. We can structure our documents logically and create information-rich sites without relying on archaic, table-based layouts. We can style our web pages with beauty and detail without resorting to inline <font> and <br> tags.
Indeed, our current design methods have taken us far beyond the hellish era of browser wars, proprietary protocols, and those hideous flashing, scrolling, and blinking web pages. As far as we’ve come using HTML 4 and CSS 2.1, however, we can do better. We can refine the structure of our documents and increase their semantic precision. We can sharpen the presentation of our stylesheets and advance their stylistic flexibility. Goodbye <div> soup, hello semantic markup In the past, designers wrestled with semantically incorrect table-based layouts. While slightly contrived, this example serves to illustrate the structural redundancy of designing complex layouts with HTML 4 (as well as XHTML 1.1 et al). HTML5 SVG. Advertisements SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and it is a language for describing 2D-graphics and graphical applications in XML and the XML is then rendered by an SVG viewer.
SVG is mostly useful for vector type diagrams like Pie charts, Two-dimensional graphs in an X,Y coordinate system etc. SVG became a W3C Recommendation 14. January 2003 and you can check latest version of SVG specification at SVG Specification. Viewing SVG Files Most of the web browsers can display SVG just like they can display PNG, GIF, and JPG.
Embedding SVG in HTML5 HTML5 allows embedding SVG directly using <svg>... <svg xmlns = " ... Firefox 3.7 has also introduced a configuration option ("about:config") where you can enable HTML5 using the following steps − Type about:config in your Firefox address bar.Click the "I'll be careful, I promise! " Now your Firefox HTML5 parser should be enabled and you should be able to experiment with the following examples. HTML5 − SVG Circle Live Demo. HTML5. SVG at Google and in Internet Explorer. At Google we're excited about new web technologies like HTML 5, CSS 3, Web Fonts, SVG, faster JavaScript, and more. It's an exciting time to be a web developer, especially with the major advancements made in modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome the last two years.
In this blog post I want to share some of the work we've been doing with SVG in particular. Today kicks off the start of the SVG Open 2009 conference, hosted at Google this year. The SVG Open conference is an annual conference where the SVG community comes together for three-days. Other sponsors of the conference this year include Microsoft and IBM. What is SVG? SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, is an open web standard that makes it easy to add interactive vector graphics to your web pages. Just as HTML gives you simple tags such as Why Google is Excited About SVG We're excited about SVG for a host of reasons: First, SVG is part of the HTML 5 family of technologies. <! Produces: What Are Some Places We Use SVG? Get Ready for HTML 5. With support in Chrome, Firefox 3.5, Opera, and Safari, HTML 5 is coming at you like a runaway train. Here are some suggestions to help you prepare to get on board rather than be left at the platform or tied to the tracks. See what others have done#section1 Article Continues Below The first thing you can do to prepare for HTML 5 is see how other people are using it.
A visit to the HTML 5 gallery will show you how several sites are already using the new HTML 5 elements. Use the source, Luke! Now you do it#section2 You can look at the sites, read all the articles here and elsewhere, and even read the specification—but none of that will help you understand HTML 5 as much as using the new elements. By doing this, you’ll find out what works and what doesn’t. X marks the spot#section3 If you are like most designers, you probably don’t write all your markup by hand. HTML 4.0 (the markup language we all know and love) is based on a “rulebook” called SGML.
Of course, it’s not all good news. Fig. 1. SVG Masks, HTML5 video and Firefox 4 « Atomic Robot Design. Earlier this month, Paul Rouget, who’s a evangelist for Mozilla posted a video where he demonstrated some of the new features that are coming with Firefox 4. And I have to say, the stuff he shows off is for the first time, a real example of how HTML5 and CSS3 can replace things like basic Flash animation. A lot of the stuff he shows off is really amazing and one that stuck out at me was around the 4 minute mark, where the text Firefox acts as a mask for a video.
Now, this was definitely something that could only be accomplished in Flash, so I really wanted to know how to do it and unfortunately there was nothing out there to tell me how. After some trial and error though, I managed to figured it out, mainly because, thanks to Firefox 4, it’s not at all that hard. Here’s what what I made. It only works in Firefox 4, so it’s not something that you can throw up on a site right now, but it is a great example of what we are going to be able to do in the next few years.
Quackit.com. This is the print version of The HTML <aside> tag is used to represent content that is related to the surrounding content within an article or web page, but could still stand alone in its own right. This type of content is often represented in sidebars. An example is a "pull quote" from a longer article. A pull quote (also known as a lift-out quote or a call-out) is a quotation or edited excerpt from an article that is placed in a larger typeface on the same page, serving to lead readers into an article and to highlight a key topic.
The <aside> tag was introduced in HTML 5. Example Modify the code below, then click "Update". Attributes HTML tags can contain one or more attributes. There are 3 kinds of attributes that you can add to your HTML tags: Element-specific, global, and event handler content attributes. The attributes that you can add to this tag are listed below. Element-Specific Attributes Global Attributes.
The Elementary Standards: A Compendium regarding Web Standards, HTML and CSS. HTML 5 Tutorial - HTML 5. Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today! The blogosphere was jerked into excitement when Google gave a sneak preview of its new service, Google Wave. Only the select few have an account, but there’s an 80-minute video about it on YouTube for the rest of us. The service is an HTML 5 app, and so HTML 5 has gone from being too far away to care about to today’s hot topic. There have been many changes to the HTML 5 landscape since my colleague, Lachlan Hunt’s 2007 article on A List Apart, A Preview of HTML 5.
Let’s see what’s happening in the world of HTML 5. What Is It? To some, it’s an outrageous attempt by browser manufacturers to foist what they want onto developers. In SitePoint’s HTML 5: Now or Never? The reason that opinion is so divided is that HTML 5 is more than just a markup syntax for documents, like HTML 4 is. Markup We’ll start by thinking about marking up a typical blog today. The DIV and SPAN elements, in conjunction with the id and class attributes, offer a generic mechanism for adding structure to documents. <! Nav So: What is HTML5? (Infographic) Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive.
HOW TO: Get Started with HTML5 Boilerplate. This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. This is not your father's world wide web. Thanks to soaring smartphone sales, new tablet devices like the iPad, and the burgeoning trend of connected devices, individuals are accessing and experiencing the web in a very different way than they were even five years ago. The desktop browsing experience is also undergoing radical change, thanks to the evolution of JavaScript frameworks and the push for standards successors such as CSS3 and HTML5. It's an exciting time to be developing or designing for the web. Even for the seasoned developer, it can be difficult to know where to start if you want to embrace the new technologies of HTML5 and support new devices like the iPhone, Android-based smartphones or the iPad without neglecting users on older browsers.
To be clear, HTML5 Boilerplate is not a framework. Are you using HTML5 in your designs? HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today. 4.4 Sections — HTML5. 4.3 Sections 4.3.1 The body element Categories: Sectioning root. Contexts in which this element can be used: As the second element in an html element.
Content model: Flow content. Content attributes: Global attributes onafterprint onbeforeprint onbeforeunload onhashchange onmessage onoffline ononline onpagehide onpageshow onpopstate onstorage onunload Tag omission in text/html: A body element's start tag may be omitted if the element is empty, or if the first thing inside the body element is not a space character or a comment, except if the first thing inside the body element is a meta, link, script, style, or template element. A body element's end tag may be omitted if the body element is not immediately followed by a comment. Allowed ARIA role attribute values: document role (default - do not set), application. Allowed ARIA State and Property Attributes: Global aria-* attributes Any aria-* attributes applicable to the allowed roles. DOM interface: interface HTMLBodyElement 4.3.2 The article Sectioning content. 4.3.3 The.