Here you will find a number of articles written by Ian over the last few years. The subjects vary but are usually around web development, especially HTML5, but other topics are explored too.
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.
It would appear that the poster attribute for the video element in the HTML5 specification needs some clarification to further define required behaviour.
Here’s why.
When I was building the companion website for my book HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design, I decided to use the details and summary elements to hide and display the links to the code examples for each chapter.
As it turns out, these useful elements aren’t widely supported across major browsers, but you can get them to work as they should using a little bit of jQuery and regular JavaScript.
This I’ll be taking part in a live Twitterview with Peachpit.
The event will take about 45 minutes to an hour and will be between the Twitter accounts @Peachpit and @iandevlin and will use the hashtag: #Ian_HTML5.
At the end of October, the <time></time> element was removed from the HTML5 specification. I and others blogged on our dismay at this, but thankfully the decision was reversed and the <time></time> element was restored to the specification. This is good.
However, the pubdate attribute is also under threat of disappearing, and I even joined the W3C to register my opposition to the removal of the pubdate attribute.
At the end of this month, after over 13 years in the UK, I will be making a big change to my life and moving to Germany. I will be living in Meerbusch-Büderich, close to the city of Düsseldorf, in Nordrhein-Westfalen.