How to tell HTML from HTML5
Tech newsletters
Just to share some newsletters I subscribe to. We all live in a world filled with noise and interruption. Sounds old school, but this is how I manage all the constant updates in tech world.
This way I don’t have to lurk HN, Reddit or other places while keeping focus on other important stuffs for the week.
Check these out.
- Ruby Weekly - curated by Peter Cooper - Ruby, Rails, Sinatra etc
- HTML5 Weekly - curated by Peter Cooper - HTML5, CSS3, Webdesign
- Javascript Weekly - curated by Peter Cooper - Javascript, Node.js, Jquery
- Hacker Newsletter - curated by Kale Davis - Stuffs from Hacker News
- Web Design Weekly - Awesome stuffs on HTML5 etc.
- StatusCode - curated by Peter Cooper - Software development stuffs.
Apart from above I do subscribe to some weekly newsletter over at StackExchange (StackOverflow, ServerFault, Programmers) just to get a glance at good questions/tips on related stuffs.
Generators for webdesign
Some handy generators
- Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator - developed by Colorzila.
- Bootstrap Buttons - a great extension to Twitter’s Bootstrap
izs:
It’s fairly common these days to think of JavaScript as a sort of “assembly language for the web”. After all, it’s the language that is natively supported by web browsers, making it the most widely deployed runtime in history. With Node, we have a very relevant general purpose non-browser stack…
- Security
- Local data storage is limited
- Local data can be manipulated
- Off-line apps are a nightmare to sync
- The cloud owes you nothing
- Forced upgrades aren’t for everyone
- Web Workers offer no prioritization
- Format incompatibilities abound
- Implementations are browser-dependent
- Hardware idiosyncrasies bring new challenges
- Politics as usual
In depth look in comparing between mobile apps and mobile web. Worth reading before you plunge into delivering your mobile products.
Many of the arguments I’ve seen that are pro-web tend to be technological arguments, and they’re maybe mostly true as far as they go. But consumers don’t buy based on quickness of updates, newness of technology, or whether their vendor is “in control” of the development process. Platform-agnosticism is part of your politics, not your customers’ buying decision. Users couldn’t care less, particularly non-technical users.
Agree with this although I prefer mobile web. I’m a freedom junkie I guess :D
FORMating your FORM semantically!
Head over to Dynamic50’s article on semantic forms. There are some interesting links in the article. Then check out their generic form here. Looks nice and I like it.
Rails scaffold will generate forms using <p><label /><br /><input /></p> style. Seems like it’s not semantically right. Time for change I guess.
p/s: Use Rails scaffold for basic design of your site please :)
