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HTML5 vs. Flash

First of all I wanted to make the title of this post "HTML5 and Flash", but I know it's going to bait more readers if I say versus. I should state for the record that for the foreseeable future I think Flash has a valid place on the web, and I don't personally see it [...]

Saving Figure & Detail

In finding that the legend element simply doesn't work inside both details and figure, myself and others been keen to find a solution.

Defining The Vomit Bug

The more I test HTML 5 and the more I play around in the DOM, the more I find odd situations that will trigger particular bugs. The one result I'm seeing is what I'm now referring to as a vomit bug.

Legend not such a legend anymore

Lately I decided I was going to recreate the interactive features of the details element using JavaScript (apparently the same day as fellow Brightonian Jeremy Keith). However I ran in to some very serious issues with the tag combined with the legend element, so serious, in it's current state, it's unusable.

New Projects, more writing & more speaking

I wanted to let you know, my dear reader, what I've been up to lately, but more over that I'm going to start cross posting my other articles to this blog.

Rimshot with HTML5

A little while ago I was involved in a conversation with someone about being able to have a button on your computer to trigger a rimshot noise, or a 'wah-wah-wahhh' (yes, of course I was in a pub). I pondered this for a few minutes, thinking it could be done using a bookmarklet and an overkill [...]

HTML5 spell death to Flash?

The web community has gone loopy over Google announcing they're supporting HTML5 in a big way, particularly and almost specifically because of the YouTube to demo using the video tag (I'll add: rightly so). However, if you search Twitter for #html5 and you'll see a that half of the comments see the HTML5 demo as a [...]