Blog
Here you will find a number of articles I have written the last few years. The subjects vary but are usually around web development, especially HTML5, but other topics are explored too.
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Cookies, JSON, localStorage & Opera
Recently I came across a HTML5 webapp issue where a customer reported that Opera Mobile and Opera Mini were displaying blank pages instead of the actual application. Naturally this required some …
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HTML5 media controls and Firefox
Yesterday saw the release of the latest version of Firefox, version 12.0. It just so happens that prior to upgrading this browser at home, I was looking into an issue that Firefox had with the
audio …
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On vendor prefixes and WODs
With yesterday’s revelation that Opera are going to support WebKit prefixes, the vendor-prefix issue which first raised its head back in February, was once again brought to the fore. Personally …
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Politeness, or the lack thereof
When I was growing up, my parents and teachers taught me to be polite to others. Admittedly I haven’t always been so, but due to their guidance I was and am aware of when I’m being …
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HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook – Book Review
Whilst I’ve already reviewed a number of HTML5 books, this is the first of the “cookbook” style and indeed the first technical cookbook that I’ve laid my eyes on. Written by …
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Tweeting for @Ireland
Since Monday, I’ve been curating, i.e. tweeting from, the @Ireland Twitter account. Maintained by WorldIrish, the project started five weeks ago and has different people curating it each week. …
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Cross browser drop caps with CSS
The other day I read Laura Franz’s excellent in-depth article on Drop Caps: Historical Use And Current Best Practices With CSS over on Smashing Magazine, and it prompted me to look into adding …
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All change please!
Back in February I said that I was changing the look of my blog and that I wasn’t going to create a bespoke WordPress theme as I didn’t have the time. I changed my mind in March and said …
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Digital Magazines being made available on tablet only
Yesterday someone tweeted a link to a new magazine made “by web developers for web developers”. “Great” I thought, “that’s for me”. So you can imagine my …
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HTML & CSS – Book Review
Ever since I saw this book mentioned in Issue 23 of the HTML5 Weekly newsletter, and the internal glimpse that the book’s website gave, I eagerly awaited its arrival.
I wasn’t …
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Unfollow the Leader
Over the last few months I’ve been gradually unfollowing some of the “big names” in the web community on Twitter for what I initially thought were a variety of reasons, but which all …
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Website Revamp
How quickly a week can change things. Last week I announced that I had changed the look of my blog and that it was pretty much going to stay that way for a while as I didn’t have the time to …
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New Look for Blog
As you may have noticed the look of my blog had totally changed. A while ago I decided that it was looking a bit out-dated and cluttered so I decided to make a change.
Since I lack design skills and …
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Marking up a Bibliography with HTML5
After reading this recent post on the new and improved time element, it got me thinking about a rather specific issue and how the
<time> element
might be used when marking up a bibliography. As … -
Keep pubdate and add moddate
Back in November I wrote a bit about defending the
pubdate
attribute in HTML5’s<time>
element which is currently under proposal to be removed from the HTML5 specification.Well I finally …
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Marking up a postal address with HTML
The other day I was pondering on how one might go about marking up a postal address (as well as phone and fax numbers etc.) in HTML. There are a number of methods available, some of which I’m …
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Introducing HTML5: Second Edition – Book Review
The famed HTML5 Doctors, Remy Sharp and Bruce Lawson have released the second edition of their extremely popular book, Introducing HTML5. I wrote a review of the first edition back in
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The problem with the poster attribute
It would appear that the
poster
attribute for thevideo
element in the HTML5 specification needs some clarification to further define required behaviour.Here’s why.
The problem
I came …
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HTML5: The details and summary elements
When I was building the companion website for my book HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design, I decided to use the
details
andsummary
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Live Twitterview with Peachpit on HTML5 Multimedia
This I’ll be taking part in a live Twitterview with Peachpit.
The event will take about 45 minutes to an hour and will be between the …