Video: the track element and webM codec
There are a couple of interesting developments in the world of HTML5 multimedia that you’ll be interested in. The first is the new <track> element (currently only in the WHAT-WG spec due to...
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HTML5 Simplequiz #4: figures, captions and alt text
A few years ago, Dan Cederholm published a series of articles called Simplequiz. Dan posed some options for marking up a specified piece of content and invited readers to choose the one they felt was...
View ArticleGoodbye time, datetime, and pubdate. Hello data and value.
Please note that since this was written, <time>, datetime and (possibly) pubdate have been reinstated, and made more powerful. Doctor Bruce has the low-down in his blogpost The best of...
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Video Subtitling and WebVTT
We’ve been able to play video in the browser without a plugin for a couple of years now, and whilst there are still some codec annoyances, things appear to have settled down on the video front. The...
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Review: Pro HTML5 Accessibility by Joshue O Connor
Pro HTML5 Accessibility is an exhaustive book. Author Joshue O Connor is senior accessibility consultant with National Council for the Blind of Ireland’s Centre for Inclusive Technology and a stalwart...
View ArticleThe main element
Recently, <main> was formally added to the W3C HTML specification. Now that the dust has settled, it’s about time we dive in to find out where and when it’s appropriate to use <main>. Let’s...
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The ride to 5
Forwards In recent weeks I contacted around 40 people, a cross section of those who have banged away at, or banged on about, HTML5. I asked them for their perspectives on HTML5 becoming a W3C...
View ArticleHTML Developers: Please Consider
ARIA is an amazing technology, it allows developers to add meaning to meaningless HTML or override meaning on HTML that is being repurposed and sometimes misused, so that users who rely upon the...
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The woes of date input
One of the many new input types that HTML5 introduced is the date input type which, in theory, should allow a developer to provide the user with a simple, usable, recognisable method of entering a date...
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Computer says NO to HTML5 document outline
What a brilliant idea! For the longest time HTML5 specified, and advised developers, that it no longer mattered what the number (1 to 6) was in a heading element (when used in conjunction with...
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