Posts in the HTML5 category

• Learning about HTML5 Geolocation

  05 March 2012 by Clive Walker

  I wrote about the 12414 project a few months ago. It’s an initiative to encourage you to learn new things over the course of 2012 and I signed up so that I would have to set aside more time for personal learning over the course of the year. That’s been partly successful but I haven’t done as much as I would have liked in the first few months. However, what I have done is read up on the HTML5 Geolocation API, which is a subject that I didn’t know much about. Here are a few of the articles and tutorials that I have been reading.

• First steps with HTML5

  01 June 2011 by Clive Walker

  I have been wanting to revise and redesign CVW Web Design for a while and also get started with HTML5. So, with some spare time last weekend, I decided to strip down the style sheet for CVW Web Design and rebuild it and my site template using HTML5. I know the site very well so I thought this would be a gentle introduction to HTML5 and start me on the redesign process.

• Getting started with HTML5 and responsive design

  14 April 2011 by Clive Walker

  Over the next few weeks, I'm planning to learn about HTML5 by recoding CVW Web Design to the HTML5 specification. I want to start with a website that I know thoroughly before using HTML5 on client sites

• Introducing HTML5

  03 August 2010 by Clive Walker

  HTML5 is quite a hot topic at the moment and it's likely that you will be developing websites with this new version of HTML within a few years (if not sooner).

• HTML5 links for light reading

  31 March 2010 by Clive Walker

  I have been reading a lot more about HTML5 recently and also considering whether to start using it ‘in anger’. Here are a few useful HTML5 links:

  How to use HTML5 in your client work right now is a useful post that describes which bits of HTML5 you can use (and taking account of IE-compatibility) The above link comes from HTML5 Doctor which is a great resources for HTML5. Includes How to get HTML5 working in IE and Firefox 2 HTML5 Gallery is a showcase of sites that use HTML5; some nice examples featured! HTML5 and The Future of the Web is a good introductory article from Smashing Magazine WHATWG has a company home page demo in HTML5 HTML5 Demos has some cool examples of HTML5 use

  The more I read about HTML5, the more I want to use it. I plan to build my next personal site with HTML5.