Tutorials

Thu, 09 Jun 2016

What a brilliant idea! For the longest time HTML5 specified, and advised developers, that it no longer mattered what the number (1 to 6) was in a heading element (when used in conj...

Tue, 19 Jan 2016

One of the many new input types that HTML5 introduced is the date input type which, in theory, should allow a developer to provide the user with a simple, usable, recognisable meth...

Wed, 09 Dec 2015

ARIA is an amazing technology, it allows developers to add meaning to meaningless HTML or override meaning on HTML that is being repurposed and sometimes misused, so that users who...

Tue, 14 Apr 2015

Updated: 3rd August 2020 The question of whether HTML elements need the addition of ARIA role attributes to expose their semantics, is one that surfaces on a regular basis. The ans...

Tue, 09 Dec 2014

The W3C’s Mike[tm] Smith (AKA @sideshowbarker) is the man with his head in the W3C validation markup checking tool source code; he makes the magic happen.  Questions were ask...

Tue, 28 Oct 2014

Forwards In recent weeks I contacted around 40 people, a cross section of those who have banged away at, or banged on about, HTML5. I asked them for their perspectives on HTML5 bec...

Tue, 29 Jul 2014

By Marcos Cáceres and Bruce Lawson. Update 26 September 2014 The initial work for Manifest in Chromium M39 is done, and Marcos (more or less) finished coding the processor a few mo...

Sat, 21 Jun 2014

ARIA (WAI-ARIA if you want to be formal) is a set of attributes that you can add to HTML elements. These attributes communicate role, state and property semantics to assistive tech...

Tue, 12 Nov 2013

It’s nearly two years since I suggested a <picture> element as a strawman proposal as a way to solve the problem of responsive images, so let’s have a look at how we’re doi...

Mon, 04 Nov 2013

The definitions of the blockquote and cite elements in the HTML specification have recently been updated. This article explains what the changes mean for developers. Russian transl...