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Tips & Tricks: Cheat Sheets For Web People
I have a set of blogs that I read every day, some are really technical, and I learn lots, and others are more inspirational, they show me the cool stuff that we as web designers and web developers can...
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Quick Perf Tip: Always Add A Trailing Slash
Here’s a quick performance tip for your Friday (or Saturday for those of you across the date line) – when linking to a directory, be sure to add the trailing slash to the directory name, otherwise, it...
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Internet Explorer App Compat VPC Update
A bunch of folks have asked about the status of the Internet Explorer App Compat VHDs (VPCs) as the current set have expired and we haven’t published new ones yet. First off, I want to let folks know...
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Book Review: Introducing HTML5
Introducing HTML5 by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp Published By: New Riders Available From: Amazon or Your Local Book Store ISBN: 978-0-321-68729-6 It’s taken me a little longer than it should have to...
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New Internet Explorer Testing VHDs Are Available
After a little delay, the Internet Explorer App Compat Testing VHDs are now available for download on the Microsoft Download Center. Like the previous set of images, these ones are time-bombed for 90...
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I’ve seen the future. It’s in my browser.
Five weeks ago, I packed up my office and made a quick tweet and then drove across 520, no longer a Microsoft employee. Microsoft was an awesome experience, and I’m super-proud to have been able to...
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1970′s Retro Pong
I started writing my first article for HTML5Rocks.com the other day, and as I started working on it, I wanted to do something fun with it, something that folks could play with and enjoy, but still...
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I/O Boot Camp – Getting Started With HTML5
Last week at I/O Boot Camp, Ernest Delgado and I presented a session titled Getting Started with HTML5. Rather than take folks through the laundry list cool new stuff that’s part of HTML5, we took...
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Building TweeterFall
I want to devote some time to how Ernest and I built TweeterFall, the demo that we used for our I/O Boot Camp presentation last week. Instead of showing isolated demos of some of the new HTML5...
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TweeterFall – Notifications
In TweeterFall, when a new tweet is received, we notify the user about that tweet via desktop notifications. If you use Chrome and Gmail, you’ve probably seen notifications pop up when you receive a...
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TweeterFall – Web Workers
How often have you seen this dialog, or something similar – telling you that some scripts on a page are taking too long while your browser has become completely unresponsive. Because JavaScript runs in...
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The Anatomy of a Great Chrome Web Store Listing
Your first chance to make a great impression with a new user is often on your application listing page in the Chrome Web Store. People will make a split second decision whether to install your...
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GoDaddy and AppCache Manifest Files
In trying to add HTML5 Application Cache support to one of my web apps today, I hit a few little snags with my hoster (GoDaddy with a Shared Deluxe Windows account) and wanted to share as I’m sure...
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What Makes For A Great Web App?
What makes a web application great? I recently sat down with Christos, one of the guys on my team to look at a number of the top web applications in the Chrome Web Store to try to identify which ones...
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Is It Time To Rethink Web Navigation?
While on my way into work this morning, I read a post on SixRevisions asking the question “Is It Time To Rethink Website Navigation?” For a very long time, navigation on websites has been stagnant,...
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Showing & Hiding Panels with HTML and CSS
I’ve always loved web apps that use little panels that animate in from the sides as a way to show and hide content, settings, or other components of a web page. We used them a couple of times in...
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HTML5 Hack-A-Thon Coming To A City Near You
Well, hopefully it’ll be near you – if not, let me know in the comments where you are so we can try to get some more of these events set up! Google is holding a few developer focused hack-a-thons...
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Google Developer Days – South America
My leg of the Google Developer Day tour is almost over, and it’s been AWESOME! Wow! Not only have I now visited 6 out of 7 continents (anyone know of any conferences or events in Antartica – it’s the...
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HTML5 Slide Decks & Presentation Timer
A couple of folks at GDD and other events have asked what I use to create my slide decks, and I figured I’d share and add a link to a little plug in that I wrote for the slide decks. My slide decks are...
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The Anatomy of a Great Chrome Web Store Listing (Updated)
A couple of months ago, I blogged about the anatomy of a great Chrome Web Store listing – and it looks like it’s time to do an update. A couple of weeks ago, we changed the UI on the developer...
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