I have a client who wants a none flash website very similar to the following template:
http://www.templatemonster.com/flash-templates/34056.html
I am always willing to learn, but I want to know first of all if this would be possible to create in HTML5. I realize this would only work on latest versions of IE, Firefox or Chrome.
Thanks guys!
Creating such a website with all the flashy effects and transitions can be a real pain for beginners. In this case you would have to deal with either CSS3 transitions or javascript (jquery) and do a lot of extra work, just to get that special effect.
To get you started with HTML5, have a look at Dive into HTML5
If you want a good backwards compatibility for html5 features, have a look at: http://afarkas.github.com/webshim/demos/ or http://html5boilerplate.com/
Yes it is possible. Everything on that page can be done with HTML5/CSS3/Javascript. Though some of it more easily than other parts.
Yes, html5, javascript, jquery, css3 are your best friends. Check http://processingjs.org/ for a very powerful canvas lib. They've just released their 1.3.0 version.
/Richard
I've seen entire games developed with <canvas> element. I think this is doable, albeit a fair amount of work. But do promise to leave the annoying guitar riffs out... :)
Some combination of:
http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/overlay/multiple.html (click "open all")
and the shaking effect from:
http://jqueryui.com/demos/effect/
Would be pretty similar. If you're going to be learning HTML5 from scratch, make use of JQuery - a lot of people that have been doing this a lot longer have already tackled a lot of the common requests.
there is a flash-like tool from HTML5 called Hype .... check this video
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I've got plenty of experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, etc. but I've yet to make the plunge into HTML5.
In trying to get my head around HTML5, I've become a bit confused. So it's a relatively new standard and my uninformed brain tells me it's not well supported. Is this true?
I've got a vague idea that there are some 3rd party scripts that improve HTML5 compatibility, again am I right?
Any good tutorials on getting to grips with the basics of HTML5 for an experienced developer?
Ok a lot of questions there but:
HTML5 is quite well supported on most modern browsers nowadays and it's generally safe enought to use as is.
Scripts to improve compatibility? you mean Javascript that detects how old your browser is and depending on the answer show you HTML 4.01 or 5? well maybe but again, it's at the point when it is not required anymore.
Yes: w3schools has a cool one.
All of that said bare in mind that HTML 5 is still in development and not a done deal. Some areas are still being implemented but at the speed things are take this is not an issue for starting to develop your pages in HTML 5.
This website - html5 doctor is a very usefull resource that you can browse looking for what's implemented where and how things are generally going.
I also found this link to be particularly useful when figuring out what's available for each browser and what's not.
Another subject that goes well with HTML5 is CSS3. Check them both out and maybe come back with specific questions ;)
the HTML5 buzzword is being used a lot, but people mostly use it to describe different things.
HTML5 is the newest (and as of yet, unfinished) iteration of the HTML standard, as presented by W3.org.
Purely, HTML5 is the markup language, but it is usually referred to as to include CSS3, and JS (in the form of the canvas element).
In the HTML area, HTML5 boasts some new element tags that should help developers add semantic meaning to their markups(e.g. header, footer, aside) , and also some useful functional elements (progress-bar, video, audio)
In the CSS area, there are some new properties that allow you to animate your elements, and orient them more easily.
In the JS area, you can read up on the Canvas element, which is a good competitor to Flash. It allows you to draw both using vectors, and bitmap data.
As for good references to HTML5, you can use http://html5doctor.com/ or http://www.html5rocks.com/en/
Hope this helps.
Please note that w3schools isn't such a good reference anymore. Although for just looking at the possibilities it's fine I guess.
I recommend the tutorial from Lynda, but there are other sites. Just search at google. It's also possible to buy a book, since there have been written a few already.
Fallback/polyfill Scripts & libraries like Modernizr,Javascript Libraries can help you take care of older browsers. (backwards compatible)
As for the browsers. Use chrome, it supports most of the functions. Look at sites like findmebyip for more information about what is supported.
HTML 5 support is not yet fully integrated in all browsers. They are still in development stage. For studying the HTML 5 the best medium would be w3schools
They have introduced new elements in HTML5 which has reduced our overhead for html. New Elements
CodePlayer
Videos for HTML 5
I've been using XHTML for about 3 years now, and didn't care much about HTML5 and CSS3 arrival. Several months ago I've stumbled upon HTML5 Boilerplate and I'm starting to get very interested in it right now.
The only thing I can't find yet is drawbacks of using this set of best practices. I know, that the main goal of it to make site look the same on wide variety of browsers, but is there something I should be aware about?
Is there something I should be aware about?
Yes, definitely. It's not a plug-and-play thing. Or at least, it could be like that but it hasn't been conceived for that. And if you use it this way you can't enjoy its best. Boilerplate is very flexible and you have to learn how to customize it. Full stop.
My personal suggestion is to start experimenting with it and study the features it has to offer. Luckily for us it's well documented and you can learn a lot. Not only the boilerplate itself, but also the rules and best practices about HTML5, CSS3, resources loading and related issues/workarounds on performances, browsers quirks and how to fix them, tricks for mobile development, polyfills and conditional loading and a lot of other crazy stuffs. Once you are aware of its possibilities, if you'll find drawbacks you'll be able to customize the base boilerplate.
Start from here, read the docs, follow every link and don't be tempted to take shortcuts. It takes time, but you'll be rewarder very well. If you have troubles ask.
For something more concrete, a drawback I found very quickly (but someone consider this a plus) is that the boilerplate doesn't provide a CSS grid. Not a huge problem, I discovered that adapt.js is easily integrable, so I replaced normalize.css with adapt.js's reset stylesheet and used the grid.
Two things I noticed couple months back is the way javascript gets loaded at the bottom of the body. I'm not a big fan of this if not only it looks dirty. Also I tested the loading myself and didn't notice any better loading of javascript. In fact it ran a couple ms slower on a huge script.
Also the normalize.css I tried couple of times but found myself restyling more paddings and margins than before. Which is normal ofcourse since it's goal is somewhat similar but a different approach. I changed this to Eric Meyer's reset.css just because I'm used to it.
I really like the modernizr script and the way to implement things for x-browser results.
Google Analytics implementation for example.
Another small thing I remember was the placing of the title tag. I changed it to the top position for SEO reasons.
I am aware of the great, wide new spectre of possibilities, but I have
almost no clue about Html5.
As one of the (from many) way to exponentially send back IE6 to the Big-Bang era - is to massively accept new technologies and methods... Well let's go with HTML5. How to embrace it in the meaning of compatibility without spending 70%+ time we usually spent looking at a Microsoft product.
Let's say we decide to start our new project in HTML5, what are the best practicies, problematics, links, infos... all related with older browsers compatib..
Do we have to create html5 docs apart or are they handable and how by oldyes.
Any good link or suggestion or explanation?
It looks like you are looking for a massive amount of information here...
What I would suggest is to visit a site such as net.tutsplus.com and do a search for html5. I would also get acquainted with the html5 shiv and other techniques to provide cross-browser compatibility.
I started with html5boilerplate - it's a great way to begin
If you can afford a book, I'd recommend hard boiled webdesign by Andy Clarke
good luck
The rules for using features added in HTML 5 are the same as those we have been following for the past decade. Use progressive enhancement as normal.
Is it all right to use <marquee> HTML element yet? I mean, is it supported by all browsers yet? I know Twitter is using it, I think it's quite good for announcements and I'd like to use it, but I don't know if it will work properly yet. Does anyone know?
No, it was DEPRECATED by the W3C.
Good luck!
EDIT:
An alternative for marquee would be to display the whole string in a span or div, for accessibility.
EDIT2:
I can't be sure but at the first glance, twitter isn't using it, BUT even if they used it (which they shouldn't) you should not follow their bad example, they can make mistakes too! :)
EDIT3:
You say it works in all browsers, while this may be true, because modern browsers try to be as compatible as possible, but you should consider that that it is good discipline to always go along with the standards.
Why? A lot of reasons: for example, the mobile browser (every day more popular) don't have the memory to spare as desktop browsers like FF Chrome and IE and they might not display toy content correctly.
EDIT4:
I just got that you were talking about "moving" trending topics, I´m really sorry for the dela, for completeness sake, here is one example:
Demo:
http://remysharp.com/demo/marquee.html
Source:
http://remysharp.com/2008/09/10/the-silky-smooth-marquee/
<marquee> and <blink>, along with abominations like bold pink 18pt text in comic sans on a light purple background, were all the rage with amateur web designers during the 90's because they're "neat", and were supposed to have experienced the true death when they shut down geocities.
The point is they're an eyesore. They keep animating forever. A much better plan would be to use javascript to scroll something in once, like when SO tells you you have new replies or that you've earned a badge. Once gets users' attention without distracting them the whole time they're on the page.
Just use a span or div and make animations into it using jQuery or custom javascript :)
I created this question as community wiki in the hope that it and its answers will be edited as the situation with HTML5 changes.
Time to use HTML5?
This question gets trotted out about once a year, so I might be beating a dead horse, but is it finally time (in the summer of 2010) to use HTML5 when developing a brand new web site?
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Edit as a follow on
Is it a mixed bag: i.e. use these tags safely but stay away from x, y, z?
We are far far away, see:
When can i use...
But you can dive into it by following:
Progressive enhancement
Graceful Degradation
for the moment :)
I think you'd probably get better feedback if you clarified what you mean by 'use html5'. That covers a lot of different functionality, some of it not even finalized. Are you planning on using it all... or just certain pieces (like the tag?) Whether its a good idea to use it now is going to depend on what pieces of HTML5 you are talking about.
It depends what you mean by HTML 5. You can use the doctype now, and many of the features are backward-compatible, so you can use them now and they will fallback gracefully. Other tags just won't work, and so you have to be more judicious.
Not until 2022 (if they stay on schedule).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#cite_note-techrepublicref-8
Regarding the "When can I use" link posted by Sarfraz - wow, that's an awful lot of extra work, waste of time, and consideration that could all be avoided if you just drop HTML5 and use Silverlight, Flex, or JavaFX. Any virtual machine based solution is going to beat fighting an endless battle with browser wars.
Is your site ready to abandon half the internet?
Yes, it's time! By two reasons:
It already works
It speeds up development of HTML5 compatibility
Use it with caution though! Using the simplified doctype and the new semantic markup tags will not hurt, but just do good. Using canvas and the media tags with no fallback might be a couple of years too early.
I wish! Wouldn't that be great! I guess if you have a site that has a high enough demand that people will upgrade their browsers then go for it. It seems like people are more attached to their old browsers than super glue is to fingers.
According to readwriteweb, as of May 2010, 46% of users use browsers with html5 support. So, maybe we are over 50% now. But it really comes down to your audience - if you are targetting the general population, I would say it's a definitely too early. But if you are targetting a more tech-savvy audience, maybe not. Of course, degrade as gracefully as possible.
Link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/46_of_internet_users_ready_for_html5.php
EDIT: Yes, the study mentioned in the readwriteweb reference was done by Chitika, and was based on HTML 5 video support. Chrome, Safari 3 and up, and Firefox 3.5 and up were consider "HTML 5".