Dive Into HTML5: Video
Mark Pilgrim dives in to HTML5 video, and swims around. This is essential reading for web developers.
Mark Pilgrim dives in to HTML5 video, and swims around. This is essential reading for web developers.
Derek Powazek takes SEO “professionals” out to the whoopin’ shed. He’s right, but I fear he’s preaching to the choir. Check this action:
Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned.
Amen.
Peter-Paul Koch tests 19 different versions of WebKit/KHTML and creates a table comparing their successes and failures. His verdict: You’re going to have to test in multiple WebKit-based browsers for awhile, yet.
A plugin for Internet Explorer on Windows that aims to bring modern HTML5 capabilities to IE. I’m not sure exactly how much this will help web developers: One of the major sticking points that makes IE still so widely-used is that users in large organizations aren’t allowed to install things. Not even plugins.
Paul Irish’s guide to the best @font-face syntax for all compatible browsers.
A list of large EE-powered sites. ExpressionEngine is the big brother of my PHP framework of choice, CodeIgniter.
via Shawn Medero
A new Javascript-based kit that tests for browser features, lets you do conditionals in CSS, and other things. Have a look at the tutorial.
Can I get a witness? Not only does it work, it works NOW.
A kick-ass search engine for icons to use in web-based projects, apps, or other graphics. This is great.
Zeldman on a proposed webfont permissions table. This seems sort of like attaching a file to a movie that says DO NOT STEAL and expecting it to work.
Jeremy Keith explains some of the problems of perception in the recent XHTML2/HTML5 showdown. If you’ve been confused thus-far, let this be your panacea.
This is giant news for anyone who makes websites. See also: W3C’s FAQ for the situation.
Mozilla won’t support H.264, Apple won’t support Ogg, Google will support both, and Microsoft won’t say. Doubt this will change anytime soon, which really makes me sad.
Consolidates and optimizes CSS in a way which I’ve not seen before. Which is cool, but it would be nice if it could convert it BACK so humans could read/edit it easily. Check the examples, you will be glad you did. Hey, it does do that.
via simplebits.
Pierre Igot on the differences between Safari 4’s page zooming and other browsers. Safari 4’s implementation is yards better, and makes the job of the programmer much easier.
Super useful Coda plugin, which uses CSSTidy. Can translate back to human-readable code for changes, then re-compress.
It looks like Google’s version of YSlow, but apparently it’s used in-house at Google. At a company where Engineers Rule, I’d bet it’s pretty precise.
You can download and read all about PNGPress at it’s homepage. It’s essentially a Applescript front-end for OptiPNG, the command line application.
Update: The download link for PNGPress is now fixed. Whoops.