Fantastic forms for mobile web – Tammy Butow
Tammy Butow has a look at the new HTML5 form features. See below for full session description and more resources.
Got a taste for it? Be there for the dev track at Web Directions South 2012.
This presentation was recorded at Web Directions Code in Melbourne on May 23 2012.
Session description
Let’s have a look at how new features such as autofocus, required fields, native date pickers, placeholder text and popping up tailored keyboards for numbers and email addresses on mobile devices can make life more enjoyable!
Resources referred to in this presentation
- Slides from this presentation
- W3C listing of differences between HTML5 and HTML4
- Dive Into HTML5 on Forms
- HTML5 inputs and attribute support
- H5F JavaScript library that allows you to use the HTML5 Forms chapters new field input types, attributes and constraint validation API in non-supporting browsers
- Modernizr
- Initializr
- HTML5 Boilerplate
About Tammy Butow
Tammy is studying a Master of Computer Science at RMIT and is the co-chair of @GGDMelb. She also spends her time making HTML5 mobile apps, travelling, blogging and filming music videos for chuckingamosh.com.
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