A little while back, Jake Archibald wrote infamously (and anthropomorphically) that the HTML5 ApplicationCache is a “douchebag”[1]. Mindful that this is a word freighted with troubling significance, it is the term he used, so I’ll go with it. The Urban Dictionary says the word douchebag generally refers to a male with a certain combination of […]
Following Blackberry 10’s support for WebRTC, Chrome beta or Android now supports webRTC, as do Firefox, Opera and Chrome for desktop (and Firefox for Android though not as yet Firefox OS it would seem). A very significant milestone for what many consider a game changing technology. Want to get started with webRTC, you might be […]
One of the questions we hear about ‘HTML5′ time and again is “is it ready for primetime?”. Technologies are always evolving—last decades’ hot hot thing is last year’s solid enterprise solution, and tomorrow’s legacy technology. You might find it hard to believe, but in the middle 1990s, Java was hot. It was sexy. Seriously. By […]
Withings Pulse Image courtesy Gdgt Pulse review The core idea in the Web of Things is to represent the real-world objects as resources and interact with them using Representational State Transfer (ReST) style of communications. In other words, using all the normal tools that we already have for building the various web applications. These tools […]
Remember Netbooks? The low priced, highly portable laptops that seemed to be sweeping the world. Until the iPad pretty much destroyed that category of device. With all the excitement about tablet devices, something interesting has been happening to the humble laptop space. Chromebooks are now the fastest growing segment in the PC market (I guess […]
Only twice do I remember bands being described as “one hit wonders” while their first hit was still actually charting (though if I’m not showing my age in describing a time when the concept of music charts actually made sense, I will be in a moment). One of those was Depeche Mode, who, after a […]
Peter Gasston gives us a rundown of what’s new for Web developers in Safari 7 (Mac OS X ‘Mavericks’ only), and 6.1 (Lion and Mountain Lion) Image Credit Tim Lucas
Recently on my post about quoting HTML5 attributes, Paul Irish commented in passing IDs are totally out of fashion now due to their high specificity so who cares This idea has been floating around for a while. Dave Gregory wrote Don’t use ID selectors in CSS almost exactly 3 years ago, observing the following. The […]
Last week we looked at one of HTML5’s syntax quirks, the fact that you don’t need to quote attribute values (unless the values contain a space or as is less well known one of a number of other characters). This time, some more about some of the subtle side effects of HTML5’s laxer syntax rules. […]
With HTML5, you don’t have to quote attribute values. Until you do. One of the benefits often touted for HTML5 over XHTML is what I once heard Paul Irish describe as its “loosey goosey” approach to syntax. No longer the strict taskmaster that XHTML was, we can now do all kinds of cool stuff like […]
A couple of weeks ago we started a series on how you might implement some of the more notable design effects in iOS 7 using purely web technologies. In the meantime, it’s been noted elsewhere that this may be difficult and perhaps impossible to do. I’m here today to tell you otherwise! Well, at the […]
Since iOS 7 was announced something’s been troubling me about the way in which some very high profile iOS developers, and others very firmly in the iOS camp, have been responding. It probably began with Marco Arment’s Fertile Ground post: I don’t think most developers of mature, non-trivial apps are going to have an easy […]
So, the iOS 7 Beta has been out for a couple of weeks, and while the opinions over whether it’s amazing, terrible, too much like Android or Windows Phone continues, it’s fair to say that, as Maxine observed a week ago here at Web Directions: it’s hard to imagine today’s release still not having a […]
A few weeks back, GreenPeace’s Into the Arctic site caught our attention. It allowed you to follow an expedition to the North Pole, with the goal “to declare it protected on behalf of all life on earth”. Lofty and worthy aims, coupled with a very sophisticated use of animation and interaction, including what at first […]
A few words on how my upcoming workshop with Pasquale D’Silva, Animating Your User Experiences, came about. Want to know a bit more about the thinking behind our program, and the backstory to some of the sessions at the conference? We’ll be running a series of posts detailing how various sessions ended up on the […]
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