This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting the days.
See, there was a little smattering of internet drama …
The W3C has completed its second round of HTML5 recommendations for implementation. The entire announcement is worth a read because there are interesting tidbits that provide more context and personnel changes within W3C, but the highlights of this recommendation are …
Bruce Lawson has been tapped to co-edit the W3C HTML5 spec and, in his announcement post, clarified the difference between that and the WHATWG spec:
…The WHATWG spec is a future-facing document; lots of ideas are incubated there. The
The following is a guest post by Pankaj Parashar. Pankaj has written here before, last time about the progress element. Fitting indeed then to write again about the very related meter element. They are different both functionally and …
The following is a guest post by Pankaj Parashar. Pankaj wrote to me about some pretty cool styled progress elements he created. I asked if he’d be interested in fleshing out the idea into an article about styling them …
Tomomi Imura (@girlie_mac) works on the Open Web at Nokia and talked about real life use cases for HTML5 on mobile devices.…
In any app that has user avatars, users should be able to change those avatars. Anything to make that easier is desirable. Many apps start with a user’s Twitter avatar, Facebook avatar, or Gravatar. That’s a smart move. Avatars …
Much like CSS3, widespread adoption for the next-gen web languages is a distant mirage. Still, it is important to stay educated on these things and even participate in these early stages while things are still malleable. Rather than re-hash everything …
