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Very useful tip for clearing floated divs

The online home of Harry Roberts, freelance front-end developer.

An article about html semantics and accessibility

"Recently my coworkers and I have been discussing HTML headings and heading hierarchy. This may not sound like something you need to spend a lot of time discussing, but there are some situations when it seems very difficult to find a solution without compromises."

Should logo be H1 and similar issues

OGDL is a structured textual format that represents information in the form of graphs, where the nodes are strings and the arcs or edges are spaces or indentation.

Some good information here about how to describe links in you webpage. Most of them aren't implemented yet, but may be worth adding for forward compatibility.

Welcome back to my semi-regular column, "The Road to HTML 5," where I'll try to explain some of the new elements, attributes, and other features in the upcoming HTML 5 specification.

Regular links (<a href>) simply point to another page. Link relations are a way to explain why you're pointing to another page. They finish the sentence "I'm pointing to this other page because..."

A refrence article about HTML5 Link Relations.

Un ejemplo interesante, a tener en cuenta, para el diseño de páginas web

W3 documentation on RDFa for HTML – important read considering Google's recent announcement it will support RDFa and microformats in search results.

A showcase of sites using html5 markup

A showcase of sites using html5 markup, with twin primary aims to help web designers and developers of how to implement html5 into their sites now, and to showcase to browser makers that there are a large number of sites already implementing the language so it should be supported.

helping you implement html5 today. We publish articles relating to HTML5 and it’s semantics and how to use them, here and now. We also invite questions, in the form of ‘Ask the doctor’ to help answer people’s queries and questions. Answers will be posted in the form of articles for all to learn from.

HTML 5 and CSS 3 are quickly gaining popularity, revealing their collective power with some exciting new design possibilities.

Web designers can do some pretty cool stuff with HTML 4 and CSS 2.1. We can structure our documents logically and create information-rich sites without relying on archaic, table-based layouts. We can style our web pages with beauty and detail without resorting to inline <font> and <br> tags. Indeed, our current design methods have taken us far beyond the hellish era of browser wars, proprietary protocols, and those hideous flashing, scrolling, and blinking web pages.

Now that the development of XHTML 2 is discontinued, should we stick to XHTML 1.0 or move forward to HTML 5 or better prefer the old HTML 4? Let’s set things straight once and for all. In this post we are trying to clear up the confusion, explain what is what and describe what markup language you can use for your web-sites.

Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip

Since the official announcement of W3C to stop working on the development of XHTML 2 in the end of 2009 and increase resources on HTML 5 instead, there has been a lot of confusion and various debates about the “proper”markup language for modern and future web-development. With XHTML 1.0, XHTML 2, HTML 4, HTML 5 and XHTML 5 we have so many languages that it’s really getting hard to keep track!

It’s time we came to grips with the fact that not every “document” can be a semantic “web page.” Some forms of writing just cannot be expressed in HTML—or they need to be bent and distorted to do so. But for once, XML can help. Joe Clark explains.

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"The creation myth of the web tells us that Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML as a means of publishing physics research papers. True? It doesn’t matter; it’s a founding legend of the web whose legacy continues to this day. You can gin up as many web applications as you want, but the web is mostly still a place to publish documents."

"XHTML 2 is dead. Long live XHTML …as HTML 5."

The death of XHTML has been greatly exaggerated.

The W3C announced last week that the XHTML 2 Working Group will wrap up at the end of this year. This should have been a straightforward, welcome announcement. Instead it has confused a lot of people who believe that it heralds the end of XHTML—see, for example, the comments on Zeldman’s blog post.

This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents.

“Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip”

重要な話。XHTML*2*が死んじゃっただけ。HTML5のXML構文はXHTML5と呼ぶのでFAでいいのかな

xhtml2の解説マンガ

This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents.

Guide to HTML5 Hiccups

HTML5 Super Friends Technical Details

A concise overview of HTML 5.

I am not an SEO expert. I said not long ago that I believe it's mostly just a matter of common sense. However, I do find the subject interesting. Being the #1

I am not an SEO expert. I said not long ago that I believe it’s mostly just a matter of common sense. However, I do find the subject interesting. Being the #1 result for a search term is a big deal. It can mean big bucks. For those of us with clients, they desire this and look to us to help. So if there are reasonable steps we can take to help with this, I think we should. One of the SEO principals that really seems to make sense to me, is having the most important content on the page as close to the top of the HTML markup as possible.

Coding Clean and Semantic Templates with comparisons examples

Fazladan kullanılan DIV elementleri ile HTML sayfa üzerindeki nesnelerin CSS ile nasıl kontrol edildiğini anlatır belge.

If you are the guy who uses <div> tag for everything, this post is for you. It focuses on how you can write clean HTML code by using semantic markups and minimize the use of <div> tag. Have you ever edited someone’s templates, don’t those messy tags drive you crazy? Not only writing clean templates can benefit yourself, but your team as well. It will save you time when you have to debug and edit (particularly the large projects).

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A comprehensive references of elements that are new or have been redefined in HTML5

"We wanted to provide a comprehensive references of elements that are new or have been redefined in HTML5, so we've created a glossary. We'll be adding to this in the coming weeks to make it more comprehensive."

Glosary HTML 5

We aren’t designing copies of web pages, we’re designing web pages.

karlpro Website mockup should be in markup (not photoshop) http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup

In the past we’ve put up with Photoshop because it was vital to achieving our beloved rounded corners, drop shadows, outer glows, and gradients. However, with the recent adaptation of CSS3 in major browsers, and the slow, joyous death of IE6, browsers can render mockups that are just as beautiful as those created in an image editor. With the power of RGBA, text-shadow, box-shadow, border-radius, transparent PNGs, and @font-face combined, you can create a prototype that radiates shiny awesomeness right in the browser. If you can see this epic article through to the end, I’ll show you step by step how to create a gorgeous mockup using mostly markup.

HTMLコードをクリーンにするための12の原則。

HTMLを綺麗に保つ12の原則

"Now, don’t get me wrong. I am sure CSS has many more years ahead of it, but Sass and languages like it are the future."

Useful to review or critique docs collaboratively

Share and mark up documents online

Share and mark up documents online | crocodoc - http://crocodoc.com/

Useful for collaboration on documents for teachers and students

lest I forget (Oli Studholme)

It seems my HTML5 id/class name cheatsheet article interested a few people, so here’s the start of an in-depth look at the document structures that fall out of the HTML5 spec. First, let’s introduce three easily confused HTML5 structural elements:

An in depth look at the HTML5 elements for semantically structuring your pages.

HTML5 yapısal araçları div - section, article

This first installment of the series focuses on microformats for link-based relationships using the rel attribute. Let's get started, shall we?

First chapter of "HTML5 for Web Developers" from Jeremy Keith.

W3CにおけるHTMLの歴史。

Chapter 1 of the book, “HTML5 for Web Designers” by Jeremy Keith

HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith. Read Chapter 1 online: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/ #html5

角丸の実装方法が書かれている

ディレクターとして把握しておいた方が良いHTML/CSS関連のお話とのこと。良い記事です。

Want html form tags using a django form? This is what you need

Allows setting doctype and avoiding self-closing tags in forms, for HTML4. I'm finding Django's insistence on XHTML-style self-closing form tags quite annoying.

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This package represents an experimental approach to improving the way Django outputs form widgets. At the moment, widgets created using django.forms are outputted as XHTML (with self closing /> tags) even if the rest of your site uses HTML. This package solves this problem by introducing two new template tags: {% doctype %} and {% field %}.

<p>Some nice template tags for getting django forms to output valid html instead of the default xhtml. Nice for sites where you're working with html 4.</p>

Writing Technical Documentation with Sphinx, Paver, and Cog.

I knew in the back of my mind that Doug Hellman had a sphinx workflow for his blog posts. Now, how did I not notice how close it was to my needs? Includes lots of tasty tips for tweaking output etc

"Writing Technical Documentation with Sphinx, Paver, and Cog I've been working on the Python Module of the Week series since March of 2007. During the course of the project, my article style and tool chain have both evolved. I now have a fairly smooth production process in place, so the mechanics of producing a new post don't get in the way of the actual research and writing. Most of the tools are open source, so I thought I would describe the process I go through and how the tools work together."

I don’t think it is hyperbole to say that HTML5 will change the way that you think about web development. I welcome many of the changes as they make development easier, and the user experience richer. With any change, though, there is certain to be a bit of trepidation and controversy. One addition that certainly is not without its controversy is the Microdata specification, but I believe the benefits of this very simple specification are going to change how you look at your mark-up in the very near future.

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