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Articles by BRUCE LAWSON
HTML5 adaptive images: end of round one
After The Great Vendor Prefix Hullaballoo of April 2012 comes The Great Responsive Images Brouhaha of May 2012. We look at the main competing formats for adding adaptive images to HTML - the<picture>element, and the<img srcset="">attribute.
It’s Curtains for Marital Strife Thanks to getUserMedia
HTML5 (or now, the WebRTC spec) gives us getUserMedia, a way for JavaScript to access streams from a device's camera and microphone. Find out how to use it and normalise the syntax differences between Opera and Chrome with the gUMshield.
HTML5: briefing notes for journalists and analysts
Your friendly neighbourhood doctors are often contacted by journalists and analysts who have questions about HTML5, usually from a consumer of business perspective. This is great, as we spend many more hours every week mutely shaking our heads while reading...
HTML5 Simplequiz 6: Zeldman’s fat footer
For the last couple of years, it's been fashionable to have "fat footers" in websites. Take, for example, Jeffrey Zeldman's footer...
HTML as a Living Standard — For and Against
Recently Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, announced that HTML is the new HTML5, meaning that the WHATWG will drop the numeral "5" and just call their spec "HTML". Giant brains John Foliot and Bruce Lawson engage in an intellectual...
Review: HTML5 Designing Rich Internet Applications
HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications by Matthew David (Focal Press). I'll be honest and up front, this is a pretty negative review. I've been sitting on it for months, but decided to post it as people have asked our opinion of this book.
Two cheers for the W3C’s HTML5 logo
We Doctors like the proposed HTML5 logo from the W3C; it's down there, glistening in our footer. But we think that the definition of HTML5 that the W3C offers is too broad to be useful.
HTML5 and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Through our handy Ask The Doctor service, we get a lot of e-mails asking us aboutHTML5's effect on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). While we can't answer in great detail (Messrs Google, Yahoo, Bing, and their friends haven't sent us in-depth details of their...
HTML5 Simplequiz 5: URLs of commenters
Here's nice and simple Simplquiz for Christmas. Imagine a new site, with a news item in an<article>element. Within that are several user-submitted comments, each of which is in its own<article>element, as the spec recommends. Most commenting...
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