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  • iOS to IE10 Metro: Building Cross-Browser Plugin-Free Experiences

    If you’ve built a plug-in-free browsing experience for the iPad, then you may be faced with a few challenges to prepare them to run on the new IE10 plug-in-free experience on Windows 8. This article will show you how to do this in a few steps below by writing code that works well in all modern browsers.

  • HTML5 Audio and Video

    As we move along with previewing some of the features included in HTML5, this article is going to look at the process of embedding audio and video files in an HTML5 page.

  • Windows 8 HTML5 WinRT App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 2/2)

    Part one of this two part series showed us how to build a small RSS reader with HTML5, CSS3 and WinJS, the Microsoft JavaScript framework for Windows 8 and how to build a WinRT application targeting the Windows Store. Now we’re going to see how to display the details of each article. We will walk through how to use transition animation and play around with the simulator, and finally we will discover Blend and how to use CSS3 Multi-columns for instance.

  • Customizing Plotkit Chart Axes

    PlotKit is a JavaScript charting library that includes support for both the HTML5 Canvas and SVG. Some chart elements, such as the chart axes, are trickier to customize than others. While there are more than enough properties to set up your axes how you like, getting there may be a challenge. In order to make your task a little easier, Rob Gravelle describes some pertinent properties that contribute to the axes layout.

  • Object.create(): the New Way to Create Objects in JavaScript

    Just when you thought that you've seen every possible way there was to create JavaScript objects, Rob Gravelle brings you yet another: the new Object create() method.  There are some pretty good reasons to use it. In today's article, Rob shows how to use it.

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  • iOS to IE10 Metro: Building Cross-Browser Plugin-Free Experiences

    If you’ve built a plug-in-free browsing experience for the iPad, then you may be faced with a few challenges to prepare them to run on the new IE10 plug-in-free experience on Windows 8. This article will show you how to do this in a few steps below by writing code that works well in all modern browsers.

  • Windows 8 HTML5 WinRT App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 2/2)

    Part one of this two part series showed us how to build a small RSS reader with HTML5, CSS3 and WinJS, the Microsoft JavaScript framework for Windows 8 and how to build a WinRT application targeting the Windows Store. Now we’re going to see how to display the details of each article. We will walk through how to use transition animation and play around with the simulator, and finally we will discover Blend and how to use CSS3 Multi-columns for instance.

  • Windows 8 HTML5 WinRT App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 1/2)

    Starting from scratch, we’re going to discuss how to build a small RSS reader with HTML5, CSS3 and WinJS, the Microsoft JavaScript framework for Windows 8. We will then build a WinRT application targeting the Windows Store. We’ll also try to follow the Windows 8 UI design guidelines by using Expression Blend 5. Read on and learn.

  • Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript: Part 2 Game Basics & CreateJS/EaselJS

    This is the second in a series of posts that will show you how to create a very simple Windows 8 game. We’ll be using HTML5, JavaScript, WinJS, and some helpful libraries from CreateJS along the way.

  • Featured Goodies

  • Testing JavaScript Using the Jasmine Framework

    Pivotal Labs' JsUnit Framework was a port of the excellent JUnit for Java. Eventually, JsUnit became Jasmine, which is the subject of today's article by Rob Gravelle, and that is, how to use Jasmine to test your JavaScript code. All you need is a JavaScript enabled browser and the Jasmine script.

  • An Overview of HTML5

    While we’ve covered plenty of tips, tricks, how-to’s and best practices for HTML5 development here on HTMLGoodies, we thought it was time to post a summary article for all those new comers to HTML5. This article is going to provide a great starting point to understanding this impressive new development technology.

  • Site Pinning: Rotating Overlay Icons for Multiple Service Notifications

    Site Pinning provides a unique way to build engagement from your users through out-of-browser notifications. The great thing about the Site Pinning API is that it’s very flexible and through some JavaScript magic, you can easily display multiple overlay icons for the various services you have. It’s a really great way of letting your users know that there’s pending information for them to check into and this article will dig into the details of this great new feature.

  • Mastering CSS3. Multiple backgrounds

    There are many reasons why you may need to create a composition of multiple images to build you background. This article will focus on another interesting feature — how to use multiple backgrounds with CSS3.

  • Responsive Web Design Close Up

    It all started with Responsive Web Design, an article by Ethan Marcotte on A List Apart. Essentially, the article proposed addressing the ever-changing landscape of devices, browsers, screen sizes and orientations by creating flexible, fluid and adaptive Web sites. Instead of responding to today’s needs for a desktop Web version adapted to the most common screen resolution, along with a particular mobile version (often specific to a single mobile device), the idea is to approach the issue the other way around: use flexible and fluid layouts that adapt to almost any screen.

  • Beyond HTML

  • Surviving a Hack

    Whether your site has been up for 10 years or for 10 minutes, web site security and protecting yourself from hackers is something you need to understand. Knowing how to cure a hack is even more important.

  • The Three Models of Web Form Validation

    Today's article will outline the different ways of validating form data and relaying validation error messages to the user. In doing so, we're going to see why it's time to consider preferable alternatives to the ole' one field at a time style of error handling such as displaying all the form errors at once and inline validation.

  • HTML and Graphics Tutorials

  • Learn CSS3 From A - Z: 3D Transformations

    3D transforms allow us web developers to render objects on the page that appear to be 3 dimensional. When the human eye sees a scene, objects in the distance appear smaller than those close by - this is known as perspective. In order to represent 3D imagery in 2D, the trick used is to make parallel lines that go away from the user merge towards a point, known as the vanishing point. This article takes a closer look at how we do that using CSS3 and HTML5 programming.

  • Object Reflection in JavaScript

    Using reflection, it's possible for a class to query another class for the names of all its members and display them. JavaScript, Java's little cousin, does provide some - albeit limited - amount of Reflective functionality. In today's article, we're going to see exactly what it can do.

  • Primers

  • Providing an HTML5 Date Input control with Fallback

    The HTML5 Date Input control has been long awaited and makes inputting dates simple for both the user and the web developer. In this tutorial, we'll be building a Accrued Interest calculator that accepts a start and end date to create the period.

  • An Overview of the W3C HTML5 Document Outliner Algorithm

    HTML4's use of div and header tags to describe a document's structure has many limitations that can be a problem for web developers. This article tackles that issue, and specifically focuses on the Header and Section elements, describing how to effectively use them to define the desired outline for your HTML documents.

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