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Following on from my introduction to HTML5 article today I want to look at two new tags introduced in HTML5 namely, audio and video. While it does not sound like much, these two new additions is changing the way we think about multimedia on thew web. Previously if the topic of multimedia on the web came up there was a few technologies that came to mind, most notable Flash. Flash is the dominating force on the web when it comes to bringing …

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I am currently reading the MEAP of John Resig’s (@jeresig) Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja and one of the things that many beginners and even intermediate JavaScript developers do not understand completely, is the different ways in which functions can be defined and how scope differs depending on how you defined your function.

It is absolutely essential to grasp this concept as it opens many doors for the developer once this is understood. Whilst reading the above title I myself finally …

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Over the last couple of weeks I have been presenting talks over at my day job covering different aspects of HTML5. The information has proved useful to my colleagues and I decided to put them on my blog to share them with everyone and hopefully help get you started and excited about the future of HTML.

In this article I will talk about where HTML came from, how it has evolved and how we got to where we are now. I will also …

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I found out about the CSS3 PIE library a couple of days ago and finally decided to give it a go today. The PIE library site is still a bit sparse in terms of usage guidelines and demos so, I decided to put one together to help other web developers get up to speed quickly.

UPDATE: I got in contact with the creator of CSS3 PIE,  Jason Johnston, and if you do not want to go through the process off building …

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I prefixed this article with the words ‘ Great Expectations’ as this is generally what is expected from web developers. We have to create experiences that brings users back and at the same time we have to cater to all of the variations of user agents that exists and is in active use. This article deals with the last point, user agents in active use. Where do we draw the line in the sand and more importantly, how do we …