Recently there was decided that we don't need a <time> element in html5 and it was replaced the utterly not semantical <data> element. I hurried to change my sites code, even if I DON'T agree. Rather than write something about it myself, I'll let the ever so polite mr Bruce Lawson have a go at it.
<data> is too vague, too bland, it sucks.
I just finished reading Toolness » Blog Archive » The Challenges of Developing Offline Web Apps (Via dailynerd.nl which you should all read, every day.) and in it are some things that I don't agree with. Let's go through them one by one, shall we?
Statement : Problem One: Simple Things Aren’t Simple.
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So frigging what I say, who said that developing for different platforms should be easy?
Statement : Problem Two: Your Development Workflow Is Now Broken.
No, you have to adapt your workflow, period. Different platforms call for different workflows sometimes, deal with it.
Statement : Problem Three: Your App Can’t Access The Network When Online.
The solution is named in the article, what's the problem? Oke, it's something you have to know and remember, but again, who said thing should be easy?
Statement : Problem Four: Cross-Browser Support Is Hard.
So?
Statement : Problem Five: There’s Not Much Tooling For This.
That's right, we are at the beginning of an era where we develop for more platforms and the tools have to catch up.
People, we are at a great point in time here. We can make history as we expand beyond the desktop. Yes, there are problems with tooling and support, but there are also new thing to learn each and every day. You can make a name for yourself right now if you work hard and discover something new.
We can complain about it, that it's hard and stuff, but why should we do that. It being hard only makes it more fun in my opinion. We have a very active and social front end community in the world, so use that and have fun.
Yesterday I gave a presentation and a workshop for a bunch of Java developers in Rotterdam. As I already provided the slides on slideshare, I will give a couple of the links I didn't get to here. For all of the people who frequent this page, no they are not new. But if you are new to front end development, they are worth reading and remembering. So here we go...
I hope you'll get something out of these links and if you feel that I missed some please let me know.
I just created my first universal video with vid.ly
I wonder if this is any use in the corporate sites that I tend to build for a living. It makes it easier as the hassle of encoding several video's for the different codes it taken out of the equation. All you have to code is:
<video
id='vidly-video'
controls='controls'
width='400'
height='240'>
<source
src='http://vid.ly/7p6y0f?content=video'/>
<script
id='vidjs'
src='http://m.vid.ly/js/html5.js'></script>
</video>Looks promising I say...
Other wise:
If your web application fails in browsers with scripting disabled, Jakob Nielsen’s dog will come to your house and shit on your carpet.
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