I have spent some time today converting the WordPress theme that I use for this blog, the excellent Grid Focus by Derek Punsulan, into HTML5. As of today, this blog is now HTML5 compliant.
It’s the first time I’ve delved into the world of WordPress theming, and I was pleasantly surprised how simple it is. Next step is to create my own from scratch, but I am looking forward to that.
Unfortunately one of the plugins that I use, SocioFluid generates invalid code, using deprecated elements and attributes. So this part doesn’t validate at all. I must look into an alternative. If you have any in mind, please let me know.
I’ve also converted my Decimal to Roman Numerals script into PHP for use in the copyright date in the footer.
My latest blog post over on PC Pro is up. The confusion surrounding HTML5 where I try to separate what HTML5 actually is from what the media and others seem to think it is.
As before, feel free to let me know what you think, either in this blog or over at PC Pro.
I’m a big fan of the web-based media viewer application Shadowbox and use it where necessary. However in a recent project I noticed that the contents of the window over which the shadowbox overlay opens, remains scrollable using the mouse wheel.
I wanted to prevent this behaviour and as usual I performed a Google search. I found many questions on it, but no answers. So I looked into it myself and managed to come up with something that works and is quite easy really.
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I’ve just written a simple post over at HTML5 Laboratory all about the HTML5 drag and drop API.
It’s by no means a complete explanation of the contents of this API, but it does give a sample of what can be done with this useful new feature that’s part of HTML5.
The other day the RTÉ website announced that the 1901 census of Ireland was now available to search online on the National Archives of Ireland website. The 1911 census was made available sometime last year and my dad had showed me the census form filled out by his maternal grandfather. The availability of the 1901 census made me repeat this but also for his paternal grandfather.
This post will deal with my father’s side of the family, who lived in Dublin. I will devote a future post to my mother’s side, who lived in Cork.
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