Despite the fact that media queries have broad applicability across the device spectrum, they’re often mentioned in the context of building mobile sites and applications. Acknowledging the difficulties building mobile sites and apps presents, it’s no wonder that media queries took off. They are brilliant modules and have been a boon especially when compared with undesirable alternatives such as browser sniffing and having to create mobile experiences on a per-platform basis. In the article "Using HTML5 to Create Mobile Experiences", Brandon Satrom shares his kno... Read More

Earlier original sites on the world wide web, written in HTML, were made up of little more than text. Corporate web designers were well aware of the fact that most of their customers had slow connections and therefore would not appreciate much of a wait. Even a simple black and white image, which took a decent amount of time to get loaded, could irritate a user.In the article "Coding the future: HTML5 takes the internet by storm" Ian Hardy, from BBC News, shares how content makers started using more sophisticated methods to encode their multimedia content. Macromedia's Flas... Read More

One of the more powerful features which we would be witnessing soon in the browser, is the ability to read and write to the local file system. The File API: directories and system which is dubbed as the FileSystem API, provides the browser a safe little sandbox where data (both text and binary) can be read and written. In this article titled "Real-world example of the HTML5 FileSystem API", the author, Raymond Camden, focuses on a real world scenario where browser file system access can be useful – the local caching of media resources.The author who is a developer eva... Read More

Large companies with multiple enterprise mobility requirements are increasingly turning to HTML5 for targeting mobile devices. In fact they have already started bringing on board experienced web developers who can extend their skills into mobility.In this blog post titled “ What's New in HTML5 - Week of April 30, 2012”, the writer, mobile analyst Kevin Benedict, brings to our attention some interesting mobility trends. He affirms that the meteoric rise of the number of apps for iOS and Android devices may present too much clutter for our network and attention spans.There ... Read More

By Chloe Albanesius One of the major complaints about MTV in recent years is the lack of actual music videos. But since "Video Killed the Radio Star" first hit the airwaves in 1981, the music video format hasn't really evolved in the last 32 years. Microsoft is looking to change that somewhat with a new HTML5-enhanced, customized video from teen pop starJasmine Villegas. The software giant has teamed up with Digital Kitchen and ad agency Bradley and Montgomery (BaM) for an IE9-enhanced video for the remix of Villegas' "Just a Friend." "Modern browsers like ... Read More

HTML 5 browsers and HTML 5 for Windows 8 Metro are now serious candidates for developing modern games. With the canvas, you have access to an hardware accelerated space where you can draw the content of your game and with some tips and tricks you will be able to achieve a splendid 60 frame per second render.This notion of fluidity is really important in games because the smoother the game is the better the feeling of the player is.The goal of this article is to give you some keys on how to get the maximum power from HTML 5 canvas.It is composed of two main parts. David Rousset wi... Read More

Mr. Greg Rewis, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Creative Suite Web Premium at Adobe Systems, Inc. What would you like to tell us about CS5 and particularly Dreamweaver?Adobe Creative Suite 5 is a series of 14 industry-leading design and development software that assist and complete virtually every creative workflow. A brand new component, Adobe Flash Catalyst, is also included that helps design interactive content without writing the code.In the latest version, focus has been on improving interactivity, performance, and maximising the impact of digital content and creative produc... Read More

Before you continue, please take a moment to read the following paragraph.Are you excited about HTML5? Web video! On your iPhone! Without Flash! Wahey! Soon everything will be HTML5-ed, and we'll be able to liberate ourselves from Adobe's proprietary deathgrip, and everything will be open! And standard!If your sentiments in re HTML5 mirror the above, congratulations. You're now part of an elite club — inhabited in significant part by middle managers, "tech pundits" and morons (not mutually exclusive groups, mind) — that bandies about terms in inverse proportion ... Read More

IndexedDB is a W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user's local client, even when Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to debug IndexedDB applications. IDBExplorer lets you view database schemas, object store content, and index details.Exploring the tool with an example IndexedDB AppTo illustrate, I created an application that tracks my New Year’s resolutions using IndexedDB. It stores and accesses my resolutions locally (on the system browsing the W... Read More

Today’s HTML5 applications can provide awesome experiences thanks to the new CSS3 specifications. One of them is CSS3 Animations. It can help you building rich animations on HTML elements. This can provide interesting feedbacks to the users and enables fast & fluid UIs. As those new animations are most of time hardware accelerated by the GPU, they definitely raise up the quality bar of the new generation of HTML5 applications. According to the “CSS Animation Module Level 3” specification on the W3C site, CSS3 Animations introduces defined animations, which speci... Read More

By Danwei Tran LucianiKnowing the location of your users can help boost the quality of your Web site and the speed of your service. In the past, users had to actively input their location and submit it to a site, either by typing it, using a long drop-down list, or clicking a map. Now, with the HTML5 Geolocation API, finding your users (with their permission) is easier than ever. Figure 1 shows a Web site using geolocation to determine the location of a user, represented in latitude and longitude. The numbers can easily be translated into something more understandable, such... Read More

It all started with Responsive Web Design, an article by Ethan Marcotte on A List Apart. Essentially, the article proposed addressing the ever-changing landscape of devices, browsers, screen sizes and orientations by creating flexible, fluid and adaptive Web sites. Instead of responding to today’s needs for a desktop Web version adapted to the most common screen resolution, along with a particular mobile version (often specific to a single mobile device), the idea is to approach the issue the other way around: use flexible and fluid layouts that adapt to almost any screen.Core ... Read More

We’re committed to making SkyDrive the best place to get access to your content from anywhere, collaborate on Office docs, and share photos. Mike recently talked about how we’re delivering access to your information seamlessly across devices – starting with Windows Phone.But a key part to delivering on our goals is having a great web experience that works across platforms. While over 100 million people have tried SkyDrive on the web, we know that there’s a lot more we can do to improve the experience. So starting today, we are launching a new version of the Sk... Read More

Over the years the web has increasingly transformed from being just a repository of content to a marketplace of full-fledged functional applications. The suite of technologies that are bandied about these days under the "HTML5" banner have as a fundamental goal, the enablement of the building of this new breed of software.In this post (and over the next post or two) we review a technology that solves an important piece of the application puzzle – that of managing storage and retrieval of user specific data on the client side, called "Indexed DB". For almost ... Read More

Users expect their Web sites and apps to work well even when the network isn't available. With data increasingly stored in the cloud, developers want to enable fluid experiences that allow access to data when there is no connectivity; when devices are disconnected from the network or when they encounter dead spots in coverage.-----> In this post, we show how to create well-behaved offline sites and apps using the following HTML5 features: AppCache to store file resources locally and access them offline as URLs IndexedDB to store structured data locally s... Read More

Over the years the web has increasingly transformed from being just a repository of content to a marketplace of full-fledged functional applications. The suite of technologies that are bandied about these days under the “HTML5” banner have as a fundamental goal, the enablement of the building of this new breed of software.------> On the HTML5 Indexed DB API – Part 1 of n Tech... Read More