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For a while now I have been reading through the new HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript specs and posting my results with regards to browser support etc. on thebrowsereview.com. Recently I started looking at Offline Web Applications. One of the many interesting things I found is the navigator.onLine property. The W3C spec states the following:

In addition to those APIs HTML 5 also defines an onLine attribute on the Navigator object so you can determine whether you are currently online

This can be …

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A couple of days ago I was watching a talk by Paul Irish at the jQuery Boston Conference. During his talk he mentioned video for everybody. Now, Video for Everyone does not use JavaScript to achieve it’s objective but simply a predefined chunk of HTML.

I thought I would take a stab at creating a jQuery plugin that would do something similar to Video for Everybody but instead, for audio. Because I am using JavaScript and not a chunk of HTML to …

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So a short while ago the W3C unveiled the all new HTML5 logo. Long has there been talk about HTML5, what it means, what is placed under this umbrella and so forth. There has been some posts about what it is and what it is not but, in general, people have been relatively happy to see people use HTML5 as a new brand, if you will, to push the next wave of web development.

However, we in the standards community, of …

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At a recent conference I attended the topic of HTML5 came up at a Q&A session with Andy Budd, John Resig, Jonathan Snook, Joe Stump and Dustin Diaz. The conversation quickly changed from the general topic of HTML5 and more specifically what is being called HTML5 these days. The term HTML5 is currently being used as an umbrella term for a bunch of new and emerging standards and API’s. Generally I do not think that is a bad thing.

As was …

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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 …