HTML5

Web Storage Specifications for HTML5

October 12, 2011

Local storage over the internet is supported by most of the modern browsers. This local storage provides functionality similar to that of cookies, but it is different from cookies to some extent. In a sense, the storage provided by this method is much more refined and better compared to simple cookie storage. In this method, [...]

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Creating Simple Puzzle Game with HTML5 Canvas

October 10, 2011

A lot of interesting developments can be performed with the help of HTML5 <canvas> element. In today’s tutorial, we would create a simple puzzle game with the help of this element. The HTML and CSS that we would need for initial stages is quite easy to comprehend. Specifically, we would need <canvas> element with specified [...]

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Creating a Portfolio with HTML5

October 1, 2011

You can create a completely customizable portfolio with the help of HTML5 and optionally using JQuery. First of all, we would need to write a markup for the HTML5 document, after which we would proceed on to the JQuery code. The markup HTML5 code is as follows: <html> <head> <meta charset=”utf-8″ /> <title>Making an HTML5 Portfolio – [...]

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Structural tags in HTML5

September 24, 2011

Although common tags were present in the previous versions of HTML, HTML5 introduced special structural tags which considerably enhanced the power and ease of web programming. For a majority of everyday programming, these tags would eventually replace many of the typical div entries from the code. The definition of the structure starts with the tag: [...]

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Creating Vector Masks with HTML5 Canvas Element

September 24, 2011

With the canvas element present in HTML5, a lot of interesting things such as games, video effects and graphs etc can be created.  It can also be used to produce some slightly less complex effects, like manipulating images on the page. In this tutorial we would use the canvas element to create vector masks and [...]

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Using Range Input to create HTML sliders

September 20, 2011

The range element that has been introduced in HTML5 and that was missing in the previous versions can be used to create a variety of sliders. The syntax of this input type is: <input type=”range”>

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Developing HTML5 cache for offline access

September 17, 2011

Internet is omnipotent these days but what is more important than website is the web application. Most of the business users as well as a large number of common users are usually on portable or mobile devices and they don’t always have an access to a network. With HTML5’s Application Cache, you can provide them [...]

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HTML5 Audio Standards

September 11, 2011

The audio tags added in HTML5 and which were missing in the previous versions is certainly something that makes life much easier for both web developers as well as end users. Until now there has never been a standard audio player for browsers. If you wanted to place audio on your site you either had [...]

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HTML5 LocalStorage

August 21, 2011

The use of HTML5 in application development is increasing with each passing day and tech giants like Apple and Adobe are increasingly employing HTML5 developers for their application development process. localStorage is a client-side key-value database, meaning it is stored in the users browser. This means the users data is saved on their machine inside [...]

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Making an iPhone app with HTML5 and CSS

August 10, 2011

Most of the iPhone applications at present are being developed in objective C which, for those who don’t have a programming background, is quite hard to learn. However, you can create a native app that lives with all the other apps with the help of HTML5 and CSS. Developing the startup screen and other simple [...]

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