Nine Into Five
Like so many others, I had tried to dig into the meat of HTML5 and figure out just what the heck was going on. Like so many others, I had come away with my head reeling from the massive length and...
View ArticleHTML5 And You
I mentioned in my previous post that I “had come away with my head reeling from the massive length and depth of the often-changing specification”, which is entirely true. Printouts of the current...
View ArticleMIX Judging
I was recently honored to be asked to be a judge for the MIX 10k Smart Coding Challenge, running in conjunction with Microsoft’s MIX conference. The idea is to create a really great web application...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Talk: HTML5 vs. Flash
Earlier this week I presented a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo titled “HTML5 vs. Flash: Webpocalypse Now?” which seemed to be pretty well received. That might be because I did my best to be unbiased about...
View ArticleRetreat!
Hey, any interest in spending a few days in a luxury lodge in the Great Smoky Mountains this coming spring with me and Aaron Gustafson, learning about and working with HTML5 and CSS3? Then you might...
View ArticleMy Own Private HTML5 Survey
Yesterday, Brandy Fortune asked me on Twitter if there are “any major sites written in HTML 5 now“. I decided to throw the question to my Twitter gang, and was of course immediately deluged in answers....
View ArticleInvented Elements
This morning I caught a pointer to TypeButter, which is a jQuery library that does “optical kerning” in an attempt to improve the appearance of type. I’m not going to get into its design utility...
View ArticleCustomizing Your Markup
So HTML5 allows you (at the moment) to create your own custom elements. Only, not really. (Ed. note: this post has been corrected since its publication, and a followup clarification has been posted.)...
View ArticleElement Customization
A couple of weeks back I wrote about customizing your markup, but I got an important bit wrong and while I’ve corrected the post, I wanted to clear up the error in detail. I said that you wrap portions...
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Generating Wireframe Boxes with CSS and HTML5
I was recently noodling around with some new layout ideas for An Event Apart’s speaker pages (e.g., Chris Coyier’s or Jen Simmons’) and wanted to share the ideas with other members of the team. But...
View ArticleHow Do I Increase Accessibility?
I have an accessibility question. Okay, it’s a set of questions, but they’re really all facets of the same question: How do I make my site’s structure the most accessible to the most people? Which...
View ArticleIncreasing Accessibility
Thanks to the fantastic comments on my previous post, I’ve made some accessibility improvements. Chief among them: adding WAI-ARIA role values to various parts of the structure. These include:...
View ArticleHeadings and Labels
Following on my last two posts about accessibility improvements to meyerweb, I’ve made two more adjustments: better heading levels and added ARIA labels. For the heading levels, the problem I face is...
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