We have taken notice of how many designers are reluctant to embrace the new technologies such as CSS3 or HTML5 because of the lack of full cross-browser support for these technologies. Many designers are complaining about the numerous ways how the lack of cross-browser compatibility is effectively holding us back and tying our hands — keeping us from completely being able to shine and show off the full scope of our abilities in our work. [...]

copyright Smashing Magazine It seems that new resources and articles for teaching and promoting HTML5 are popping up almost daily. We’ve been given HTML5 templates in the form of the HTML5 boilerplate2 and HTML5 Reset3 (although they both go beyond just HTML5 stuff). We’ve got a plethora of books4 to choose from that cover HTML5 and its related technologies. We’ve got shivs5, galleries6, and a physician7 to help heal your HTML5 maladies. And don’t forget [...]

You can’t escape it. Everyone’s talking about HTML5. it’s perhaps the most hyped technology since people started putting rounded corners on everything and using unnecessary gradients. In fact, a lot of what people call HTML5 is actually just old-fashioned DHTML or AJAX. Mixed in with all the information is a lot of misinformation, so here, JavaScript expert Remy Sharp and Opera’s Bruce Lawson look at some of the myths and sort the truth from the [...]

Even though HTML5 is relatively new and it’s not supported yet by all major browsers, it is being used now by a lot of web designers and developers. Without a doubt, HTML5 is going to play a big part in the way we develop on the web, for many years to come. As I just mentioned, many people are using it now, but there are also many of you out there that hasn’t touched it [...]

Tutorial Details Technology: CSS3, HTML 5 Difficulty: Intermediate Completion Time: 1-2 hours Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to follow along. [...]

I remember shivering in my college dorm room trying to figure out how to get some weird /div to float in some sort of column like structure and silently crying a single tear as my youth slowly withered away. Those days are gone! With the birth of Firefox, the step-child banishment of Internet Explorer 6 and widespread adaptation of standards… life indeed has become much cheerier for us front-end web developers. What could be better [...]