HTML5’s time element just got zapped

It’s with great sadness that I inform you that the HTML5 <time> element has been dropped, and replaced by a more generic – and thus less useful – <data> element. The pubdate attribute has been dropped completely, so there is now no simple way to indicate the publication date of a work. Goodbye HTML5 <time>, …

CSS4, what can we expect?

The CSS4 Selectors spec has already seen a large number of revisions since level 3. As it is still the first draft of the spec, it will likely change in numerous ways before it becomes a recommendation itself and there are browser implementations. Lets have a quick dig into the draft and see what has …

Chaotic, confusing … and very, very exciting

As Jeremy Keith put it (emphasis mine): This thread on whether HTML5 Boilerplate should include Respond.js by default (and whether the CSS should take a small-screen first approach) nicely summarises the current landscape for web devs: chaotic, confusing … and very, very exciting. I for one tend to pledge for the Mobile First approach (see …

Why we won’t see Siri appearing on Apple TV any time soon

From the TV show 30 Rock: What if you didn’t need a remote control, because the remote control is your own voice? Along with a good laugh this also raises an upcoming solution voice control technology creators will have to think of: how can we assure that you — and only you — can control …