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This Week in HTML 5: onbeforeunload leading to script groups
Mark Pilgrim has a new episode of This Week in HTML 5 that covers the onbeforeunload event. To get there, a lot happened, which Hixie explained:
Someone asked for onbeforeunload, so I started fixin ....... read more
18 days ago
HTML 5: Integrating HTTP authentication with HTML forms
Mark Pilgrim has a new This Week in HTML 5 that features a bit new proposal for integrating HTTP authentication with HTML forms.
A common use for forms is user authentication. To indicate that an H ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
Web Workers: Tweaked and out in Firefox 3.1b2
Ben Turner posted on Web Workers being available in the upcoming beta2 using the latest spec:
First, we?ve moved away from the old Gears-esque API that we had in Alpha 2 (see previous post) in favo ....... read more
Fri,
05 Dec 2008
HTML 5 Gecko Build
Henri Sivonen has posted an exprimental Gecko build that parses HTML 5:
The level of quality is ?It runs and some pages render!? This build is not at all suitable for normal browsing use. Please do ....... read more
Thu,
04 Dec 2008
Mouse entering and leaving versus over and out
Greg Reimer is doing really interesting work with reglib and he now has a neutral post on events and how he favours the pattern of mouse enter / leave to mouse over / out.
He shows an example using t ....... read more
Fri,
28 Nov 2008
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That is what HTML 5 defines, and Dustin Diaz agrees as he lays down the skinny:
Doctypes have long been in standardista discussions circ ....... read more
Fri,
28 Nov 2008
How Flash Can Join The Open Web
As it is Adobe MAX this week, there is a lot of talk about the Flash platform. How does this relate to the Open Web? Well, it turns out that Dion and I have been discussing how Flash can join and beco ....... read more
Wed,
19 Nov 2008
Creating Custom Protocol Handlers With HTML 5 and Firefox
Via Myk Melez comes word that Firefox 3 supports HTML 5 web protocol handlers, which I had not realized before. These are really nifty:
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window.navigator.registerProtocolHandl ....... read more
Thu,
20 Nov 2008
This Week in HTML 5: Video tag changes
Mark Pilgrim is back telling us what is new in the world of HTML 5 and focuses on changes with the video tag and API:
The big news this week is a major revamping of how browsers should process mult ....... read more
Thu,
20 Nov 2008
Using HTML 5 postMessage
One of the cool new features in HTML 5 is Cross Document Messaging. What makes this feature really nice is that all the next-generation browsers support it: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Opera 9, an ....... read more
Tue,
18 Nov 2008
Video and audio tags and cross origin access
Thanks to Chris Double I saw the email thread on cross origin access to media files via the video and audio HTML 5 tags.
Jonas Sicking does a great job at explaining the issue, and why we need to rest ....... read more
Mon,
10 Nov 2008
What?s not in HTML 5?
In Mark's latest installment of This Week in HTML 5 he delves into what ISN'T in the spec:
It has been suggested (1, 2, 3, &c.) that HTML 5 is trying to bite off more than it can metaphorically che ....... read more
Tue,
11 Nov 2008
What makes a Web application?
Robert O'Callahan, someone I am proud to consider a colleague now, has written some thoughts on the essence of Web applications where he discusses what makes a webapp at its core.
As browsers continue ....... read more
Fri,
07 Nov 2008
HTML 5: The Section Element
Mark Pilgrim kicked off a series of posts that keep track of the goings on in HTML 5, and has now created the first article in a new series: The Road to HTML 5 - Episode 1: the section element.
The Ro ....... read more
Thu,
06 Nov 2008
Kaazing Gateway: HTML 5 WebSock Server Released
Kaazing has released Kaazing Gateway, an open source HTML 5 WebSocket Server.
The HTML 5 WebSocket specification is a standard that attempts to simplify much of the complexity around achieving bi- ....... read more
Fri,
31 Oct 2008
Firefox 3.1 to support HTML 5 video and audio
Firefox 3.1 now includes support for the HTML 5 video and audio tags. A nice new article just went up on using these on the Mozilla Developer portal. Firefox 3.1 currently supports the Ogg format, but ....... read more
Mon,
27 Oct 2008
A Peek Inside the W3C
I've long believed that the Ajax/JavaScript communities and the W3C should communicate more and have more awareness of what both camps are doing so we can work together better and get things done. In ....... read more
Fri,
24 Oct 2008
This Week in HTML 5: Offline and Video
Hot off the presses is a fresh "What's Week in HTML 5", Episode 10, post from Mark Pilgrim:
The big news this week is offline caching. This has been in HTML 5 for a while, but this week Ian Hickson ca ....... read more
Fri,
24 Oct 2008
This Week in HTML 5: Web Forms 2, Search, and more
In Marks eighth roundup of HTML 5 land, he delves into the merging of Web Forms 2, which gives us fun things like:
input type= email”
input type= url”
inpu type= number”
input type= ....... read more
Sat,
11 Oct 2008
This Week in HTML 5: Clickjacking
Mark Pilgrim, in his latest episode on This Week in HTML 5, got into an interesting topic indeed: clickjacking.
The big news this week is the disclosure of a vulnerability that researchers have dub ....... read more
Tue,
30 Sep 2008