Posts Tagged ‘HTML5’
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Structural SemanticsThe Importance Of HTML5 Sectioning Elements
- January 18th, 2013
- 89 Comments
Whatever you call them — blocks, boxes, areas, regions — we’ve been dividing our Web pages into visible sections for well over a decade. The problem is, we’ve never had the right tools to do so. While our interfaces look all the world like grids, the underlying structure has been ...
Read more...How To Build A Real-Time Commenting System
- May 9th, 2012
- 58 Comments
The Web has become increasingly interactive over the years. This trend is set to continue with the next generation of applications driven by the real-time Web. Adding real-time functionality to an application can result in a more interactive and engaging user experience. However, setting up and maintaining the server-side real-time components ...
Read more...Progressive And Responsive Navigation
- February 13th, 2012
- 79 Comments
Developing for the Web can be a difficult yet rewarding job. Given the number of browsers across the number of platforms, it can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. But if we start coding with a little forethought and apply the principles of progressive enhancement from the beginning and apply some ...
Read more...How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js
- November 21st, 2011
- 58 Comments
The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTML5 canvas changes everything about Web animation. The canvas element makes it possible to integrate drawings and animations ...
Read more...HTML5 Semantics
- November 18th, 2011
- 69 Comments
Much of the excitement we’ve seen so far about HTML5 has been for the new APIs: local storage, application cache, Web workers, 2-D drawing and the like. But let’s not overlook that HTML5 brings us 30 new elements to mark up documents and applications, boosting the total number of elements ...
Read more...Pursuing Semantic Value
- November 12th, 2011
- 65 Comments
Disclaimer: This post by Jeremy Keith is one of the many reactions to our recent article on the pursuit of semantic value by Divya Manian. Both articles are published in the Opinion column section in which we provide active members of the community with the opportunity to share their ...
Read more...Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value
- November 11th, 2011
- 173 Comments
Update (November 12th 2011): Read a reply by Jeremy Keith to this article in which he strongly argues about the importance of pursuing semantic value and addresses issues discussed in the article as well as in the comments here on Smashing Magazine. Disclaimer: This article is published in the Opinion column ...
Read more...Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas
- August 30th, 2011
- 48 Comments
Images have always been the heaviest component of websites. Even if high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and more widely available, websites will get heavier more quickly. If you really care about your visitors, then spend some time deciding between good-quality images that are bigger in size and poorer-quality images that ...
Read more...HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm
- August 16th, 2011
- 74 Comments
By now, we all know that we should be using HTML5 to build websites. The discussion now is moving on to how to use HTML5 correctly. One important part of HTML5 that is still not widely understood is sectioning content: section, article, aside and nav. To understand sectioning content, we ...
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