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There is some confusion among users regarding the new HTML5 keygen element. The keygen element generates a public/private key pair and then creates a certificate request. Many users want to know the exact use of the element when SSL is available. This is my take on the subject. Correct me if I’m wrong. <form action="process.cgi" [...]
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Mobilize.js allows web developers create mobile sites out of existing websites with little effort. It supports the following features: Automatically detect mobile browsers. Easy to integrate – no server side changes needed. Open source – no expensive software or licenses needed. Familiar HTML5, Javascript and JQuery Mobile tools used. Supports iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Opera Mini [...]
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Search-engines have reached a impasse with respect to understanding of HTML data. Although most sites, especially databases centric sites use structured data in the backend, once the data is rendered as HTML the data looses all its structure and makes it difficult for search engines to understand them correctly. Until now most search engines have [...]
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- Tags: semantic web
One of a common requirement in some web applications is that of sending messages and data across windows (of the same origin). Doing this is not easy and requires the help of cookies and a bit of JavaScript. Now with HTML5 and its localStorage feature we can accomplish this quite easily.
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One of the interesting and useful addition to the HTML5 specification is the Geolocation API. The Geolocation API allows users to share their location with web applications so that they can enjoy the benefits of various location-aware services. Geolocation enables you as a developer or website owner to figure out where a particular user is [...]
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If you’re designing a web application, you may think that developing it in English will be quite enough. Remember, though, that only 22% of internet users speak English as their native language, and 85% of ecommerce consumers won’t buy a product if they can’t read about it in their native language, which leaves only one [...]
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- Tags: Internationalisation, language, Localisation
With Adobe Flash not being natively supported by Apple iOS, there have been some attempts from programmers to convert Flash files to HTML, such as SmokeScreen and Gordon; which will help developers easily port existing Flash content to iOS devices (iPad, iPhone). Not to be left behind on its own turf, Adobe has come up [...]
Now that people have slowly started implementing HTML 5 features in their sites they would like the world to know the same. W3C have released a set of logos you can stick on your site and announce the world of your HTML 5 accomplishments. Besides the primary logo it also include logos for other main [...]
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One of the interesting and useful additions to the HTML5 standards is the support for Web Workers. Web Workers will help you design more responsive web applications then otherwise possible in the past. What are Web Workers Web Workers are basically a API specification that lets you create background JavaScript threads to process CPU intensive [...]
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