DharmaMike

A collection of articles relating to HTML5 and how it can be used now, before the specification is formalized.

Here’s a useful post on Smashing Magazine written by a member of the Zurb team explaining how and why to add the following jQuery goodness to a site:

• Image uploading with the Ajax Upload plugin
• Validating textual form input with a textchange plugin
• Image annotation with a couple of annotation plugins
• A CSS grid with the handy CSS Grid Builder

As a (soon to be) provider of training, I’m curious about this.  Do the majority of people learn best from books on their own, by viewing other peoples work, by being taught, or some combination of those?

Learn the proper way to handle “nowrap” and “pre” with CSS.

a Firefox extension integrated with Firebug…brilliant!

So Apple decided to put up a showcase of HTML 5 features but, in their infinite wisdom, decided to only let Safari browsers display them.  The issue appears to be that they’re doing simple checking of the User-Agent header rather than using something more robust like Modernizr which would allow them to display demos based on browser capabilities.

An open source jQuery plugin for creating mobile websites that look and feel like native iPhone apps.  Some additional documentation is available in the project Wiki on Google Code http://code.google.com/p/jqtouch/