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HTML5 Canvas Refcard - Meet the Author: Simon Sarris

The HTML5 Microzone is presented by DZone and Microsoft to bring you the most interesting and relevant content on emerging web standards.  Experience all that the HTML5 Microzone has to offer on our homepage and check out the cutting edge web development tutorials on Script Junkie, Build My Pinned Site, and the HTML5 DevCenter.

The Canvas element is one of the most exciting and celebrated new technologies that arrived with the new HTML5 specifications.  It gave web developers and designers the ability to create many dynamic graphics that they were previously only able to make with...

1 replies - 2506 views - 01/17/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

HTML5 on Android 4.0: Way Better, Still Behind iOS 5

So affirms Sencha, in the latest installment of their HTML5 developer scorecards series.Four-sentence version:

0 replies - 5981 views - 12/20/11 by John Esposito in Articles

One Click PhoneGap Build to Android Device Script

I've been fooling around with PhoneGap Build, and I really love it. I love that I don't need to fire up Eclipse or XCode to start fooling around with an app. All I need is a text editor and a browser. What I especially love is the ability to integrate a...

1 replies - 3242 views - 12/10/11 by Terrence Ryan in Articles

How DZone Users Are Using HTML5

Over 2200 of you responded to our SurveyMonkey on how you are actually using various new web standards (sometimes all classed under the generic heading 'HTML5').Before anything else: thanks for your responses! We'll certainly take them into account as we...

0 replies - 3607 views - 12/01/11 by John Esposito in Articles

What are the Most Common HTML5 Features?

Are you interested in finding out which HTML5 specs and other emerging web standards are being implemented in todays websites?  Interested in seeing if developers are converting many Flash web components to HTML5? Want to know if people aren't compatibility...

1 replies - 7809 views - 11/14/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

HTML5 < time > element: returned!

Well, after much hubbub, including some here at DZone, the HTML5 <time> element has returned.Paul Cotton, on behalf of the chairs of the working group, issued a revert request -- and his explanation is interesting: The Chairs have received multiple...

0 replies - 4259 views - 11/04/11 by John Esposito in Articles

HTML5 < time > element: gone!

The <time> element is now gone from HTML5.After a four-month discussion, W3C decided on Saturday to drop <time> because timestamps can be entered under <data>, a generic HTML5 tag designed to mark machine-readable information.Ian 'Hixie'...

1 replies - 3635 views - 10/31/11 by John Esposito in Articles

Developing with HTML5, CoffeeScript and Twitter's Bootstrap

This article is the fourth in a series about my adventures developing a Fitness Tracking application with HTML5, Play Scala, CoffeeScript and Jade. Previous articles can be found at:

0 replies - 3764 views - 10/21/11 by Matt Raible in Articles

Overview of HTML5 Support in the Android 4.0 Browser

Android 4.0 was announced and the SDK was released. So, I’ve washed my hands, I’ve opened the emulator and I’ve started to dive into the new browser and see what’s in there and what’s not. Unfortunately it’s still Android Browser and not...

1 replies - 10318 views - 10/20/11 by Maximiliano Firtman in News

HTML5 Jobs Up, Flash Down

A report by freelancer.com shows some interesting web development job trends for Q3 2011:

1 replies - 4571 views - 10/17/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

HTML includes

One of the first questions beginners ask when starting to learn HTML is how to do includes. They seldom know that includes is what they are asking about, but instead feels bad when having to copy and paste that same menu HTML each time they want a new...

1 replies - 4007 views - 10/12/11 by Emil Stenström in News

Presenting Mobile HTML5 compatibility tables

September 2011 was a busy month for the mobile web space. While we are still waiting for iOS5, Android Ice cream sandwich, new mobile browsers appeared in the ecosystem: Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7.5, Firefox 7 for Android and the upcoming...

0 replies - 3542 views - 10/10/11 by Maximiliano Firtman in News

HTML5 Zone - A Dojo for Web Ninjas

The Web as a platform is changing faster every day—blink, and you're behind.  Just look at the version numbers of browsers lately.  This year we started with IE9, Chrome 8, and Firefox 4.  Next year, we could see IE11, Chrome 20, and Firefox 12.  The...

3 replies - 10505 views - 10/05/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

DZone Launches NEW HTML5 Zone!

The HTML5 Zone is a new subtopic-focused "Microzone" that will follow the HTML5 standard, along with CSS3, ECMAScript, and other emerging web standards through blogs, tutorials, videos and news.  The daily stream of content there will keep you...

0 replies - 1421 views - 10/05/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Announcements

Custom validation messages for HTML5 Input elements using the constraint validation API

HTML5 has introduced several input types such as EMAIL, URL, RANGE, SEARCH, DATE, TIME, etc,. Most of the modern browsers have implemented them and are ready to be used in a HTML document. Another exciting feature introduced in HTML5 is the form...

0 replies - 5405 views - 08/29/11 by Sagar H Ganatra in News