The clinic is getting busy with more HTML5 ailments. This week, we’ll discuss name-value pairs, e-commerce with HTML5, lightboxes and modal windows, why we need new elements, and optional subtitles.
Your Questions 18
Avoiding common HTML5 mistakes
Between curating sites for the HTML5 gallery and answering readers’ questions here at HTML5 Doctor, I see a host of HTML5 sites and their underlying markup. In this post, I’ll show you some of the mistakes and poor markup practices I often see and explain how to avoid them.
Your Questions #17
The clinic is packed this week with your HTML5 ailments! Today, we’ll discuss an HTML5 syntax dilemma, using sections within sections, link semantics, describing the contents of a figure, and marking up web app toolbars.
Your Questions #16
The clinic is getting busy with more HTML5 ailments! This week, we’ll cover the separation of formatting and content, custom elements, using aside for social links, sections with no visible titles, and canvas in the DOM.
Your Questions #15
The clinic is busy as ever with more HTML5 ills. This week, we’ll cover marking up Wikipedia infoboxes, anchors in <hgroup>, <figure> for avatars, header(s), and how to use <code> and <pre>.
Your Questions #14
The clinic is getting busy with more HTML5 ailments. This week, we’ll cover questions about aside, blogging platforms, stylesheet links, id attribute validation and a mammoth semantic journey.
Your Questions #13
The clinic is getting busy with more HTML5 ailments. This week, we’ll cover server-side validation, immutable images with <canvas>, retrieving drawn objects from a <canvas>, creating custom tags, the role attribute, and the effects of <hgroup> on SEO.
.net Awards Nomination
As you may or may not be aware, .net, the world’s best-selling magazine for web builders, has opened voting for its annual .net Awards – a celebration of the very best in web design and development. We’re proud to announce that not only has HTML5 Doctor been nominated in the blog of the year category but messers Lawson & Sharp have also been nominated in the standards champion category.
Your Questions Answered #12
The latest round of HTML5 prescriptions is in! This week, we’ll briefly cover the HTML5 vs Flash debate, whether to use <body> or <div>, HTML5 rich text editors, and the HTML5 charset and doctype.
Your Questions Answered #11
The clinic is busy as ever with more HTML5 ailments. This week, we’ll show you how (and whether) to store a <canvas> on the server, whether to use <progress> or <meter>, more on <header>, the placeholder attribute, and HTML5 minification.