As part of making it easier to develop and analyze web pages, I previously released two extensions for Firebug: Firefinder and Inline Code Finder. I’m happy say they are now updated and are working with the latest versions of Firefox and Firebug!
Last week I introduced Robert’s read and now it’s time again for my reading list for the latest week.
Forms on the web. They are literally everywhere, and there seem to really be all kind of flavors for them. From day one they have been a great mean for users to input data and information and interact with various services. And what comes with that is every implementation under the sun to offer validation for them, custom display and functionality if they aren’t native in that specific web browser, and much much more. Therefore, during the development phase of HTML5, one of the important things that have been looked into is making forms on the web evolve into what both end users and developers need to make things easier. Why would every web developer have to invent the wheel again or include tons of JavaScript code just to make something very basic like a datepicker work?
When the AJAX wave came in 2005 when Jesse James Garrett coined the term and then everyone wanted it, one of the major shortcomings was that dynamic updates of only portions of a web page lead to inconsistent history handling and back/forward navigation button problems in web browsers and poor end user experiences. Enter the HTML5 History API.
People are creating amazing things with HTML5 canvas, especially combined with other HTML5 features. I thought I’d touch on a handy method that some people don’t seem to know about: canvas clip.
Keeping track of multiple logins, passwords and services on Internet can be tedious at best, and projects like OpenID have tried to target that and make it easier and more secure for end users. Learning the lessons from OpenId and having a multitude of ideas how this can be made even better, Mozilla Labs has created BrowserID.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at the London Ajax Mobile Event in, surprisingly, London.
For the rest of 2011, I have a lot of intriguing countries/places to visit with exciting conferences to speak at, so I wanted to list them here. And who knows, maybe you will be attending any of those and we can get the chance to meet there?
Today I was just about to write a blog post about images and serving different sizes depending on the device accessing it. Then the Adaptive images post came up on the public-html@w3.org mailing list. So let’s look at that and add my thoughts.
HTML5 is here to save us all: it has the cool functions, eye-dazzling features and APIs to go around. I get to see a lot of great things developed with HTML5, but I’d like to issue a word of caution as well.
Looking at HTML5 and the placeholder functionality, it’s there to offer a hint to the user before they have started filling out something. But what if that’s not the best way?
With the first release of IE10, and officially stating it won’t support Windows Vista, it gets me thinking.
A somewhat provocative article title, I know, but I think it’s really important to discuss where we are right know in regards to web browser versions.
I’m currently in Las Vegas for Microsoft’s MIX conference where they just showed the first version of Internet Explorer 10. Given what they announced, I have some thoughts.
A common discussion about HTML5 and whether to use it, and touched on in the HTML5 Hurdles article, is usually about fallback support and making it work in every web browser. But do we really need that?
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Time for Geek Meet May 2011! This time, welcoming a great speaker from Greece!
Yesterday I attended the Stockholm Web Monkeys’ spring 2011 meetup in Stockholm, and I gave a short presentation and led a discussion about HTML5 – What’s good, what’s missing, web browser implementation takes.
It is a special day today. I have just resigned from my current job and am moving on to an extraordinary exciting challenge!
I wrote about it on Twitter last week (follow me on Twitter!), but naturally I should mention it here too, my dear readers. With new input from testing Internet Explorer 9 and from the Opera team, I have updated my HTML5 tests and compatibility tables and CSS3 tests and compatibility tables.
Last week Twitter asked third-party developers to stop making Twitter client apps.
Microsoft recently launched their Dev:unplugged HTML5 competition, to create outstanding showcases.
By using a combination of the <canvas> element and the File API we could put together a little service that offers “The Cure” for many people.
As always, there is so much discussion going on about HTML5 and video on the web, and I thought I’d suggest a solution to it all.
The other day at work we had a discussion about how code should look, or rather, what characters to use.
I should have written about this long ago, but better late than never – time to share my experiences. Typography is an important part of user experience, and with CSS3 @font-face we can offer users any font we want to.
Last night there was an interesting announcement from the WHATWG group, who effectively develops various HTML5 and related specifications. That is, HTML5 is no more.
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Time for the first Geek Meet of 2011! And man, this will be a great night!
Yesterday Google announced they’re dropping H.264 video codec support in Google Chrome. Whatever you think about this, it’s an interesting move and I thought I’d express my thoughts on it.
Let’s start this year with an adaptation of the lyrics to Tina Turner’s We Don’t Need Another Hero.
The year is coming to an end, so what better time to take a nice cup of tea and go into nostalgic mode to write up a summary.
With HTML5 video and the current support in web browsers, we need to cater to different codecs, and fallbacks for web browsers with no native video support. This is where Video JS steps in.
Last week Microsoft released the HTML5 Extension for Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in, and I have some thoughts about that.
To me, something about HTML5 that makes it quite interesting is all the new support for file interaction. I’ve written about the File API and reading file information before, and I thought I’d expand on that and add uploads and progress bars.
Doing layouts on the web has always been hard, but it seems like we’re getting a better option to do it now.
I just encountered the weirdest bug with the HTML5 autofocus attribute in Google Chrome and Safari.
With a blog it’s great getting comments, but as any blogger need to realize, there are other channels that people like to express their reactions in to – especially Twitter.
For a long long time we have tried to be able to push information from the server out to the end users without having to poll the server all the time.
I’d like to take a little time to give you a tip about how to stay on top of what I do/write.
With the myriad of devices, web browsers and screen sizes out there, we need a way to to be able to easy detect how we want to layout a web page for them. This is now offered to us through Media Queries in CSS3.
Time for the first Geek Meet this fall! Can you believe it’s been four months since the last one? This time around, it’s time to bring in a guest from the UK.
Seasons come and seasons go; life turns in a constantly changing manner. But, as after every summer, I’m back and I long to write for you! 🙂
I continually talk about HTML5 and how progressive enhancement is a simple approach to make any new behavior possible in web browsers that haven’t implemented it yet. I thought I’d show you a simple example how to do this with the new placeholder attribute for input elements.
A couple of days ago, Apple announced support for developing extensions, so I felt obliged to implement my HTML Validator extension for Safari too. 🙂
Two years ago, the Swedish magazine Computer Sweden listed Sweden’s Best Developers 2008, where I was listed as number 19, the highest ranked Interface Developer. Today they announced Sweden’s Best Developers 2010 
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One of the key things to improve performance of a web site, real as well as perceived, is including your JavaScript files at the end of the document (as I described in Improve Your Web Site Performance – Tips & Tricks To Get A Good YSlow Rating). However, there is a drawback to that.
I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I’m saying something really really important has happened for the future of the Open Web. Finally, it looks like there might be a solution to the video codecs and patent encumbered alternatives we have been dealing with.
I recently wrote about CSS3 Transitions and the next step for that is sort of CSS Transitions on steroids: CSS3 Animations (CSS Animations Module Level 3 specification).
It is soon summer (Yay!) and about time for a last Geek Meet before a summer break!
With various discussions and things taking place right now, it reminds me of a phrase that has been around for some time.
The other day when I wrote Using CSS3 Transitions To Create Rich Effects I was thinking of nice ways to apply this. One of the things that came up was creating the Mac OS X Stacks behavior entirely in CSS!