It was announced earlier this week on the Google Gears Blog that Gears is being deprecated. This announcement points out that the emphasis has been on HTML5 instead of Gears for over a year. This deprecation means that “there will be no new Gears relea… Continue reading →

There are several recent developments worth noting related to HTML5.

HTML5 Specification Slated for Recommendation Status in 2014

I will be presenting A First Look at HTML5 at RMOUG Training Days 2011 tomorrow and I believe that many of those in atte… Continue reading →

I will be presenting the thirty minute presentation “A First Look at HTML5” at Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) Training Days 2011 three weeks from today. Because I only have thirty minutes, I will necessarily only be able to cover high level … Continue reading →

One of the exciting features of HTML5 is the promise of universally supported animation and graphics via the new canvas element/tag. In this post, I look at how easy it is to use this tag with a simple example. I also demonstrate how well it is support… Continue reading →

With HTML forms submissions today, web developers typically must use JavaScript to ensure values are provided when required and are within appropriate ranges and types. HTML5 offers form field validation support built into the HTML form input tags that… Continue reading →

I recently blogged on Recent HTML5 Links of Interest and discussed Chrome’s announcement of their intention to drop support for the video codec H.264 in the <video> tag (see also the comments section of that post), Modernizr’s coverage of undetec… Continue reading →

As I stated in my post HTML5 Date Picker, Opera 11 is ahead of some of the other non-beta web browsers in implementing some of the expected HTML5 tags. In this post, I look at Opera’s implementation of the HTML5 “color picker” as an illustration of wha… Continue reading →

I recently posted that I had decided to use Opera in my HTML5 demonstrations for RMOUG Training Days 2011. As I stated in that post, a big reason for adding the Opera web browser to the set being demonstrated is that it supports some of the HTML5 featu… Continue reading →

HTML5 is all the rage right now. There seems to be an increasing number of blog posts and articles on HTML5 each day. In this post, I look at some of the recent posts on HTML5 that I have found particularly interesting.Chrome Dropping Video Codec H.264… Continue reading →