“Block-level” links in HTML5
One new and exciting thing you can do in HTML 5 is wrap links round “block-level” elements. Imagine you have a front page with lots of teasers for news articles, each of which leads to a page devoted...
View ArticleAccessibility & Native Drag and Drop
A few days before my native drag and drop article came out Gez Lemon wrote about accessibility in drag and drop, and touched on HTML 5. I then promised to look at implementing accessibility with native...
View ArticleThe section element
We doctors are a bunch of chums using HTML5 and writing about how we do it. Apart from spurious requests for medical advice, the questions we receive most are about using the section element, and we...
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Your Questions Answered #4
Here we go with another post rounding up your HTML5 questions and sharing the answers with the world. We cover a wide range of topics this time, inlcluding ARIA, storage, offline capabilities, and...
View ArticleThe time element (and microformats)
Microformats are a way of adding extra semantic information to a webpage using HTML classes — information like an event’s date and time, a person’s phone number, an organisation’s email address, etc....
View ArticleVideo: 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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