I've been looking over the HTML5 drafts and HTML4 - HTML5 differences doc, and here's a list of bits that caught my eye, and why.

If you're a developer or read any development blogs, you'll have seen the plans for IE8 and backward compatibility. I'm not going to cover any of the detail as to why this breaks our development process, but instead offer up some questions. Only 8 for now

Until recently, I didn't know IE (both 6 and 7) had an overflow problem. But it does. I found it on my personal blog, and my pet project: jQuery for Designers - it's particular visible because I use a lot of code examples. Here's a detailed account of the problem, and it's fix.

Inline form validation is the way forward with any web site today, and I've found I've been able to extract this process out in to a simple plugin that can be applied anywhere throughout my code using the the following pattern.

In an effort to create better documentation, we've introduced inline documentation to our JavaScript at the office. Since we use Dean Edwards' Base library for our inheritance the JSDoc out of the box wouldn't work without commenting explicit method name and memberOf attribute - which, in my view, defeats the point. Here's how to [...]