Developers are ready to make the plunge into HTML5: to develop sophisticated Websites and applications that work the same regardless of what computer or mobile device is used. Do you have the right tools to make it happen?
Today, HTML5 is kind of like a TV series without any future seasons written yet. It has a some episodes already filmed, some raw material that needs to be edited, some shots that are in line for cool special effects, and many, many rough drafts. Yeah, I`m talking about the whole HTML5 story, not just the spec, but hopefully you got the idea.
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We will first see in this article what the added values of PhoneGap for HTML5 applications are. We’ll then discover how to create our very first project where we will retrieve the accelerometer’s values from our JavaScript code. At last, we will review a complete HTML5 gaming sample almost ported as-is to PhoneGap to use the accelerometer available on the Windows Phones.
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Vendor prefixes enable Web developers to experiment with new standards before they reach the Candidate Recommendation stage. I previously wrote how these prefixes are also a mechanism browser vendors use for handling timing conflicts between implementations and specifications. In building demos of new features for our IE Test Drive site and in various presentations, many of us on the IE team deal extensively with vendor prefixes.
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Over the years, the web has increasingly transformed from being a repository of content to a marketplace of full-fledged functional apps. The suite of technologies that fall under the "HTML5" banner have, as a fundamental goal, the capabilities to build within this new breed of software. In this article, I'll review a technology that solves an important piece of the application puzzle—managing storage and retrieval of user-specific data on the client side—called "IndexedDB".
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A well-designed application should provide appealing visual cues for users to take next steps and navigate through the app itself. The use of animations and transitions is a great way to accomplish this, and HTML5 can help get you there easily and quickly. Starting with an overview about the concept of transitions, this article describes how HTML5’s CSS3 Transitions specification works, and provides insight on how best to handle browsers that don’t support the feature.
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Web developers charged with designing fast and responsive sites know that loading a new page every time the user clicks a link is slow, and that fetching all content dynamically effectively disables the back button. Working with hashes is better, but is still not ideal. Internet Explorer 10 in the Windows Developer Preview eliminates the compromise by adding support for HTML5 History. This article describes how HTML5 History’s pushState, replaceState, and popstate APIs provide fine-grained control over the behavior of the back button and the URL presented to the user for dynamic content.
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Html5Asp Controls enable you to use ASP.Net to present the most cutting edge controls available to your users' browser. Advanced browsers speed up entry of Websites and URL with presentation of keyboards tailored to your specific data.
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html5WTP is a tool make Eclipse WTP support html5 javascript code content assistance.
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Enterprise is a new Rapidleech script template based on HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
Enterprise designed by Amin Gholami, for today and tomorrow.
It's free to use for everyone in the world...
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TechEd 2011 Birds-of-a-Feather:
A Lap Around HTML5: HTML5 Graphics