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Making HTML5 Video work on Android phones
I recently became the owner of an Android phone* and found that, despite it being listed as a feature of the browser, the HTML5 video element didn’t work for almost all of the examples I tried. I’ve...
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Encoding Video for Android
In my previous post, Making HTML5 Video work on Android phones, I said that you have to encode your videos as .m4v in order for them to work in Android. This isn’t actually correct. The suffix can be...
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Playing WebM in Safari with plugins
As you’re no doubt aware, HTML5 video is this year’s big thing — but there’s a dispute going on about which should become the default standard video codec. The current nascent de facto standard is...
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HTML5 block-level link bug in IE7+
HTML5 allows the use of block elements inside the a tag, which was not permitted in HTML4. This means that you can wrap a link around whole sections of markup, making all of the child elements of the a...
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Data Attributes in HTML and jQuery
Sometimes the existing HTML attributes aren’t sufficient for describing an element’s content. We can use class, ref, rel, title and more, but even so there are occasions where that’s not enough. HTML5...
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HTML5 for Web Developers
The WHATWG have released the HTML5 Edition for Web Developers, which removes all of the overly-technical details aimed at browser makers and leaves the important stuff you need to learn — and with a...
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HTML5 Form Validation
A lot of the attention paid to HTML5 Forms has been centred around the new input types. email, url, date, and the rest are all very convenient, but for me the really useful feature is the built-in...
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Styling HTML5 Form Validation Errors
Back in March I wrote about HTML5 Form validation and the problem with the appearance of error messages. I proposed a syntax for styling the error messages, and shortly after I published the post, I...
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The Media Fragments Module
One W3C specification which seems to have slipped below most people’s radar is Media Fragments 1.0, which moved to Candidate Recommendation status in December last year. Media Fragments is a syntax...
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Guest Article for HTML5 Doctor
As well as my CSS tips on the Safari Books Online blog, yesterday also saw publication of my article CSS3 Pseudo-Classes and HTML5 Forms on HTML5 Doctor. Those guys really know their stuff, so I was...
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Introducing HTML’s new template element
You may have heard of Web Components, a suite of emerging standards that make it possible to build secure reusable widgets using web platform technologies. One of the first specs to make its way into...
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It looks like custom elements, and web components in general, are beginning to break through into general developer consciousness, as I see more and more articles and talks discussing what they are,...
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