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May 8, 2013 路 2 min read
Every now and then a friend/colleague聽of mine asks me to have a look at his latest masterpiece (aka site). In many cases the second request is to have a look at why...
Autocompletion with HTML5 datalists
April 23, 2013 路 1 min read
We have all used (and most of us built) an autocomplete input element. There are thousands of plugins/widgets out there, although below I鈥檓 demonstrating the easiest, most semantic and HTML5 way to...
HTML5 Prefetching
April 16, 2013 路 2 min read
One of the most interesting, but not widely known features of HTML5 is prefetching. By using it you can start loading pages (or even files) before the user requests them. This can...
Not so popular HTML5 attributes
April 8, 2013 路 2 min read
HTML5 offers many new attributes that make our lives easier and our code more semantic. In many cases they even provide functionality that we used to implement with javascript, like the placeholder...
Mobile media capture straight to your web form
January 23, 2013 路 1 min read
So, you鈥檝e just build your latest responsive web design masterpiece and you鈥檙e adding the final touches for the mobile viewport. Suddenly you discover a form where the user must submit a profile...
Call or text from a mobile device using very simple markup
January 7, 2013 路 1 min read
At my latest presentation (at upNorth web conferce in Greece), people were impressed with some very trivial markup that can add many points to your mobile site (and not only) with minimum...
HTML5 video and mobile browsers
April 30, 2012 路 2 min read
The brand new HTML5 video element is surely very impressive. You鈥檝e encoded your videos in multiple formats (well, at least .mp4 and .webm to support all browsers), you might鈥檝e also provided Flash...
Mobile Webkit form tips
April 19, 2012 路 2 min read
One of the things I really hate when I surf from a tablet/phone browser (usually my iPad/iPhone) is filling in forms. I know, the lack of a physical keyboard sucks big time,...
Safari's HTML5 search input
July 8, 2011 路 1 min read
The safest and easiest way to upgrade your markup to HTML5 is to use the new form input types. They will appear as ordinary text inputs on older browsers, and at the...
A really simple HTML5 template
January 19, 2011 路 6 min read
Lately I鈥檓 using more and more HTML5 elements on my markup. It鈥檚 the right thing to do after all, especially on smaller, flexible projects. But as a typical developer I鈥檓 too lazy...