Recently I came across a HTML5 webapp issue where a customer reported that Opera Mobile and Opera Mini were displaying blank pages instead of the actual application. Naturally this required some investigation.
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Yesterday saw the release of the latest version of Firefox, version 12.0. It just so happens that prior to upgrading this browser at home, I was looking into an issue that Firefox had with the audio element, where it would appear to jump about as it worked out the element’s height, when I noticed something odd.
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Whilst I’ve already reviewed a number of HTML5 books, this is the first of the “cookbook” style and indeed the first technical cookbook that I’ve laid my eyes on. Written by Chuck Hudson and Tom Leadbetter (of HTML5 Doctor fame), the book aims to teach developers HTML5 through examples of differing complexity.
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After reading this recent post on the new and improved time element, it got me thinking about a rather specific issue and how the <time> element</time> might be used when marking up a bibliography. As an occasional student of history with the Open University (OU), this is something that I know a bit about, but how one would mark this up with HTML I wasn’t sure. So I thought I’d take a look at doing so.
Back in November I wrote a bit about defending the pubdate attribute in HTML5′s <time> element which is currently under proposal to be removed from the HTML5 specification.
Well I finally found the time to write a change proposal requesting that the pubdate attribute remain, and for a moddate attribute to be added. The pubdate attribute is already in widespread use, since many WordPress themes already use it. Since that fact alone greatly helped the <time> element to be reinstated in the HTML5 specification, surely it should carry some weight here too.
We’ll see.
Update
Marat Tanalin also recommends keeping the pubdate attribute and also recommends a moddate type attribute (update or pubupdate). I had somehow missed his recommendations.
The famed HTML5 Doctors, Remy Sharp and Bruce Lawson have released the second edition of their extremely popular book, Introducing HTML5. I wrote a review of the first edition back in and eagerly awaited the release of this revised edition.
It doesn’t disappoint.