Article in html5
"An analogy I like was given to me too late to make the book. Think of
<article>not in terms of print, like 'newspaper article' but as a discrete entity like 'article of clothing' that is complete in itself, but can also mix with other articles to make a wider ensemble."
(Via Bruce Lawson)
HTML5 safe usage 2
Input elements
Input elements are interesting enough for a much longer and more extensive post than I have time for now, but here is one little tidbit I haven't read anywhere else. If you use an unsupported input type in a browser it falls back to text, what I didn't knew is that reading the type with JavaScript fails also Turns out, I was wrong, see here who to detect it.... CSS attribute selectors are fine, only no JavaScript detection. See for yourself below...
Go and compare it with different browsers, just to see which does what.
HTML5 safe usage 1
This is the first in a serie of posts about html5, sharing the various things I learned the last few weeks.
The last few weeks I have been doing quit some research on html5 and the various new input types. All this out of sheer curiosity and for a presentation I held just yesterday at iprofs for Fronteers. I started with the full intention of holding a enthusiastic speech on how wonderful everything was and that the future is now.
Sadly my story was not so positive as I had hoped, although I hope that I didn't scare people away from html5, as I truly believe that is something you can use now. Maybe only a sub set if your audience still uses IE6 and you don't want to be dependent on javascript. Let me just show you some ways to savely use html5 now.
Layout elements
Older browsers don't support the new layout elements and are not able to style them, you could use javascript to help them. Or you could fake the semantics by using classes and div's. So instead of using :
<article>Some content</article>You could use:
<div class="article">Some content</div>And have your cake and eat it too, as in: Support older browsers and use the proper semantics that html5 bring you. You could use this same technique for the various other html5 layout elements.
And maybe there comes a time that everybody supports html5 and you can than search and replace the various elements and finally be one of the cool kids.
maybe blogging is better than twitter
Some interesting thoughts on the difference between blogging and using the various social media like twitter...
But it wasn't the same. I had gone from owning (most of) my content, to digital sharecropping.
source : Tantek
: "I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves."
source : The Life of Leo
Maybe we do put too much of our content in other peoples hands, twitter owns our tweets, flickr our pictures, slideshare our slides and youtube or vimeo our videos. At least on our own blogs we have control over whether or not we keep it, anyone remember Buzz...
What Happened to Yahoo
So very, very true...
"In technology, once you have bad programmers, you're doomed. I can't think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery."
Via: Krijn Hoetmer