This subject of this post is the redesign of my employer’s website, Preloaded.com, and is cross-posted from the Preloaded blog with permission.
At the beginning of the redesign project we agreed some design tenets: the new site should be a best-practice showcase and an opportunity to learn and use some of the latest web technologies; and it should employ existing services where practical.
The HTML5 video element is now included in Firefox, Safari & Chrome, and on its way in Opera. By using JavaScript to access the media elements API it’s easy to build your own custom controls for it; in this article I’m going to show how I built a (very) basic control interface.
There’s been a noticeable increase in chatter about HTML5 recently, as the spec is moving towards Last Call status in October. The working group now has three co-chairs (from Apple, Microsoft, and IBM) and, despite some debate over semantics, the Working Draft of the spec was recently updated.
Misunderstanding Markup: an explanation of the different flavours of HTML & XHTML, in comic strip form, by Brad Colbow. I’m not sure if it makes Jeremy Keith’s original blog post any easier to understand, but it’s certainly more fun to look at.
With (standards-compliant) browser innovation firmly back on the agenda, there’s a lot of exciting new technology to get to grips with. This week, Google have thrown their weight firmly behind HTML5, while a new start-up aims to bring web fonts to all.
I’m at home with the flu at the moment, so taking the opportunity to un-star some items in Google Reader; this post is a link-dump with a little added comment.
A few of them have been in my favourites for a couple of months, so apologies if you’ve seen them already.
I’m writing about the CSS3 Multi-column layout module and I notice that WebKit supports a series of proprietary properties: –webkit-column-break-after, –webkit-column-break-before, and –webkit-column-break-inside. However, despite the documentation saying that they’re implemented in Safari 3+, I can’t seem to get any of them to work.
Has anyone reading this ever seen an example of these in action? I’ve searched for demos but have found nothing. If you know anything about this, please leave me a comment; your help would be gratefully appreciated.
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