CSS3 Pie Lets You Have Your CSS and IE It, Too

•July 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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CSS3 Pie Lets You Have Your CSS and IE It, Too | Webmonkey | Wired.com

Here’s something that might make your life as a designer a little bit easier: CSS3 Pie is a new library written by Jason Johnston that lets you use several of the latest CSS3 enhancements and still have them show up in Internet Explorer versions 6 through 8.

The Future of the Web: HTML5 Web Sockets

•July 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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The Future of the Web: HTML5 Web Sockets | AJAX & RIA Journal

HTML 5 Web Sockets, as defined in the Communication section of the HTML 5 specification, represent the next evolution of Web communications. Web Sockets provide not only a standard against which Comet- and AJAX -style, or any other RIA application, can be built, but also a socket, native to the browser, that facilitates network programming from the browser with efficient bi-directional (or full-duplex) communication over a single connection, eliminating many of the connection limitations that surround Comet and AJAX.

Planning & Designing a Custom Web App

•July 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Planning & Designing a Custom Web App | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch

There are likely millions of ideas for great web apps floating around, and yet many of them never come into existence because that one person with the idea doesn’t know where to start. With every great project, designers can be hired, and developers will come as well. The real problem that needs to be solved is the planning of a web app.

JavaScript RegExp Example: Online Regular Expression Tester

•July 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

JavaScript RegExp Example: Online Regular Expression Tester

Feel free to test JavaScript’s RegExp support right here in your browser. Obviously, JavaScript (or Microsoft’s variant JScript) will need to be enabled in your browser for this to work. Since this tester is implemented in JavaScript, it will reflect the features and limitations of your web browser’s JavaScript implementation. If you’re looking for a general-purpose regular expression tester supporting a variety of regex flavors, grab yourself a copy of RegexBuddy.

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – online O’Reilly book

•July 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have what you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you’ll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for both the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Browser Compatibility Master Table – great reference!

•July 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Compatibility Master Table

My Compatibility Tables are by far the most popular resource on this site. Here you find the master table that contains links to the individual tables.

HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback – a very thorough article

•July 16, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback

The emerging HTML5 specification lifts video playback out of the generic <object> element and into specialized <video> handlers. Explicit markup for audio and video places elevates moving pictures to a similar native rendering capacity as <img /> markup we are used to but with more fine-grained details about underlying formats and compression available before loading. In this post I will dive into implementation details of HTML5 video based on currently available consuming agents and outline some of the nuances of preparing media for playback.

How HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site load faster with one line of code

•July 16, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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How HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site load faster with one line of code. « keyboardy

One of the lesser-known jewels of HTML 5 is link prefetching. The idea is to extend the time-honored concept of image preloading to HTML content (and without any messy AJAX code).

Here’s how it works…

Rejex, the JavaScript regular expression editor – a very useful Regular Expression tool. Check it out!

•July 16, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Rejex: the JavaScript regular expression editor

Rejex, the JavaScript regular expression editor – a very useful Regular Expression tool. Check it out!

HTML5 Video, CSS Animations, and jQTouch

•July 15, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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YouTube – HTML5 Video, CSS Animations, and jQTouch

The HTML5 Video tag, CSS3 Animations, and jQTouch are all beautiful things. Unfortunately, they look like crap when combined. Follow along as I show you how to make these three technologies play nicely together.