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Searching for the HTML5 Search Input
I recently saw the new HTML5 Search input element and wondered what the heck it does:
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<input name="s" type="search" />
Chris Coyier has posted an in-depth article going into this new HTML5 input type to appease your curiosity. The HTML5 spec actually says you don't have to do much with it, but Webkit actually has a [...]
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The Quick & Easy Way of Getting into YUI: SimpleYUI
The Yahoo! YUI is an incredibly feature-rich JavaScript library with a LOT of functionality but getting your head around all of those features can be tough. The YUI team wants to help developers get up and running more quickly and announced yesterday the release of SimpleYUI; a basic and more streamlined version of the YUI [...]
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A Periodic Table for HTML
Josh Duck has put together a fun and useful list of the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft but organized like a periodic table of elements:
When you click on one of the tags more information appears:
Who says chemistry can't be fun?
[via Jackson Harper]
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The Node.js now running on webOS – and more Web improvements
By Dion Almaer
webOS 2.0 SDK has just launched, and it has node.js built in (and more). The following is taken from my personal blog
At our last Palm Developer Day, Ben and I discussed future APIs for webOS including "JavaScript services" as a way to write code that runs on the other side of the device [...]
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A Drumbeat for the Open Web
I stumbled on the Mozilla Foundation's Drumbeat project recently:
Drumbeat gathers smart, creative people like you around big ideas, practical projects and local events that improve the open web.
It's very well done combination of projects + community.
There's a whole slew of cool projects already one here. A small sample:
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Extending HTML5
Google Rich Snippet
Oli Studholme has an excellent new article on HTML5 Doctor on the different ways HTML5 can be extended with things like microformats, the link tag, and more. Why would you want to do this?
While HTML5 has a bunch of semantic elements, including new ones like <article> and <nav>, sometimes there just isn’t an element with the [...]
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Raphaël 1.5 Released
Dmitry Baranovskiy and team have released another version of Raphaël, an excellent drawing and animation library backed by SVG (VML on Internet Explorer). New features in Raphaël 1.5 include custom attributes and keyframes. Keyframes can be defined similar to CSS3 Animations:
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el.animate({
"20%": {cy: 200, easing: ">"},
"40%": {cy: 100},
"60%": {cy: [...]
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New SVG Web Release: Owlephant
The SVG Web team has announced a new release. SVG Web is a drop in JavaScript library that makes it easy to display SVG graphics on Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 using Flash.
The new SVG Web release, like all of their releases, is named after especially silly D&D monsters. The new release is code [...]
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Design 3D Models in a Browser
Perfect for a Monday is a cool 3D model editor built using the Canvas tag and created by Jayesh Salvi:
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View Source Tutorial: Content Site Using HTML5 Canvas + CSS3
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Find Info On Webkit Spec Extensions
I stumbled across http://webkit.org/specs recently, which is basically a nifty listing of all custom extensions Apple/Webkit has made to web specs, written up as specs themselves so that other browsers can implement them:
Squirrelfish Bytecode
Timed Media Elements
CSS Effects
Extensions to CSS 3 Media Queries
The 'pointer-events' property
There were some on here that I had never even heard of. [...]
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It’s Gmail: The Game!
TechCrunch reports on a Googler, Paul Truong, who created an HTML5-based game for Gmail called Galactic Inbox using his 20% time:
When you start it up, a little Gmail logo envelope guy pops out of a “20% Projects Lab” and starts flying. Essentially, he’s a spaceship and can shoot objects coming his way. It’s simple, but [...]
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How to Drag Out Files Like Gmail
Ryan Seddon, aka the CSS Ninja, has a nice blog post up where he reverse engineers the new feature in Gmail where you can drag attachments from an email on to your desktop.
Note that the feature only currently works in Chrome.
Ryan begins with the following code:
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var file = document.getElementById("dragout");
file.addEventListener("dragstart",function(evt){
evt.dataTransfer.setData("DownloadURL",fileDetails);
},false);
Describing the code Ryan says:
From [...]
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innerShiv: Make innerHTML + HTML5 Work in IE
(Various Shivs)
Via JD Bartlett comes HTML5 innerShiv for IE. Before innerShiv, the following would not work in IE:
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var s = document.createElement('div');
s.innerHTML = "<section>Hi!</section>";
document.body.appendChild(s);
For example, let's imagine we have some CSS that defines the following for the HTML5 elements footer, header, and section:
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footer, header, section {
border:1px solid #ccc;
display:block;
padding:10px;
}
Unfortunately, even if [...]
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Adobe Releases Web Fonts
Last week Adobe announced they are jumping into the Web Fonts game in a partnership with Typekit:
For this debut of Adobe Web Fonts, I think we’ve made some great choices. Everyone knows Myriad and Minion — pervasive workhorse sans serif and serif typefaces, respectively, which will prove to be as useful on the web as they have been [...]
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Real World Canvas Tips from Hakim El Hattab
From Hakim El Hattab (who has some very nifty HTML5 experiments up) comes some nice tips on using the Canvas tag:
Cross browser implementation
There are no real discrepancies between the canvas outputs of different browsers so long as the JavaScript code is written correctly (if not, browsers tend to try and fix things for you, [...]
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Motorola Purchases 280 North
I don't usually post acquisition news on here, but I just wanted to congratulate 280 North, who we've covered on here many times and are fellow members of the Ajax community. 280 North produces the awesome Cappuccino language/framework, including the 280 Slides presentation web application. Techcrunch is reporting that Motorola has bought 280 North. From [...]
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CSS Media Queries: Bees Knees Or Spawn of Satan?
The last month has seen an interesting back and forth over CSS Media Queries. In a nutshell, CSS Media Queries make it possible to apply style sheets only if certain properties are available on the display device. For example, you could have a stylesheet only display for screen devices with a maximum screen width of [...]
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Blow Things Up!
Jonas Wagner has ported the Flash 2D physics engine Box2DFlash to JavaScript:
In his demo Jonas uses the Canvas tag to map the physics simulations on. Click on it to create explosions:
Jonas talks about the approach he used to convert the original library from ActionScript to JavaScript:
At first I thought this conversion would be trivial as [...]
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The CSS3 Song
Don't be bummed it's Monday, 'cuse the CSS3 Song is here to cheer you up:
How can you go wrong with lyrics like this:
CSS3
Web animation done properly
CSS3
Degrading gracefully
I had a dream, an awesome dream
People surfing in the park
On Windows, Linux and Mac
And their page load speeds were oh-so-high
No big JavaScript library
Just to show some eye-candy
CSS3
Web animation [...]
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