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

I had the pleasure of working with Cancer Research this year in building the backend and front end interactive technology behind their TacheBack campaign. Now the web site is up for the Yahoo People's Choice Awards - so I'm asking that you take a peruse and place your vote.

This is an odd one, but while I was out in Berlin, where there was pay for T-Mobile, I found that I could access Google Maps via the iPod Maps app without having to pay any connection fee.

Since I'm always posting code snippets, it made sense to apply some syntax highlighting. There's a few different ways to achieve this depending on your preference.

Jon Hicks proposed it over a year ago and I went ahead and wrote it as a bookmarklet. Finally now, the people who created Safari Tidy (for live xhtml validation), have created a fully integrated Safari Microformats plugin.

Bookmarklets are, IMHO, being used for more and more funky functions. I really like the Facebook and Tumblr bookmarklets that scoop out information about the type of content you want to post and then sends them off to the respective sites. John Gruber recently reposted his JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder - which is useful, but if you're planning [...]