A mixture of musings on web design & development, history, and life
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Keep pubdate and add moddate
Back in November I wrote a bit about defending the pubdate attribute in HTML5′s <time> element which is currently under proposal to be removed from the HTML5 specification.
Well I finally found the time to write a change proposal requesting that the pubdate attribute remain, and for a moddate attribute to be added. The pubdate attribute is already in widespread use, since many WordPress themes already use it. Since that fact alone greatly helped the <time> element to be reinstated in the HTML5 specification, surely it should carry some weight here too.
We’ll see.
Update
Marat Tanalin also recommends keeping the pubdate attribute and also recommends a moddate type attribute (update or pubupdate). I had somehow missed his recommendations.
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Marking up a postal address with HTML
The other day I was pondering on how one might go about marking up a postal address (as well as phone and fax numbers etc.) in HTML. There are a number of methods available, some of which I’m going to look at here and give my take on them.
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Introducing HTML5: Second Edition – Book Review
The famed HTML5 Doctors, Remy Sharp and Bruce Lawson have released the second edition of their extremely popular book, Introducing HTML5. I wrote a review of the first edition back in and eagerly awaited the release of this revised edition.
It doesn’t disappoint.
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The problem with the poster attribute
I’ve come to the conclusion that the poster attribute for the video element in the HTML5 specification needs some clarification to further define required behaviour.
Here’s why.
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HTML5: The details and summary elements
When I was building the companion website for my book HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design, I decided to use the details and summary elements to hide and display the links to the code examples for each chapter.
As it turns out, these useful elements aren’t widely supported across major browsers, but you can get them to work as they should using a little bit of jQuery and regular JavaScript.
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Live Twitterview with Peachpit on HTML5 Multimedia
This I’ll be taking part in a live Twitterview with Peachpit.
The event will take about 45 minutes to an hour and will be between the Twitter accounts @Peachpit and @iandevlin and will use the hashtag: #Ian_HTML5.
