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 [...]

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 [...]

If you're using html5 for your site, and care about what the 3% of Firefox 2 users experience, then this should help you. For me it wasn't so much the 3%, it was that my pages work perfectly in IE6, but are a complete mess in Firefox 2, and I just couldn't live with that. The [...]

Since HTML5 is getting more attention by way of marking up our new pages, and the only way to get IE to acknowledge the new elements, such as <article>, is to use the HTML5 shiv, I've quickly put together a mini script that enables all the new elements.

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.