HTML Component Model & the Shadow DOM

At Fronteers ’11, Alex Russel gave a great talk about the Shadow DOM (relevant slides starting from slide 32). Jake Archibald, who also gave an awesome presentation at Fronteers, provides us a nice writeup on the subject, along with a very practical example: This is an <audio> element, or at least its implementation in Google …

jQuery Mobile Select: jQuery Mobile Navigation Replacement Plugin

A often-used practice in Responsive Web Design is to replace the menu/navigation (<ul>) with a dropdown (<select>) on small devices, this to prevent it from taking up the whole screen. Today, my friend Jochen released a jQuery plugin that does the job for you automagically: jQuery Mobile Select is a jQuery Plugin to replace the …

HTML5 For Web Designers

Jeremy Keith, author of HTML5 For Web Designers (A Book Apart #1): It’s been a year and a half now since HTML5 For Web Designers was released and I figured it was about time that it should be published in its natural format: HTML. Very solid resource; Highly recommended. And freely available online. HTML5 For …

Fight your way through

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, …