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Top 10 Design Mistakes: #9
Continuing my series of top web design mistakes that are often made by web developers, lets dive into number 9.
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Internet Explorer Developer Tools: HTML
In one of my previous posts, I introduced the built in, Internet Explorer Developer Tools that come with Internet Explorer 8. Today, I want to take a deeper dive into the HTML Tab and what you can do...
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Tools For Web Designers and Web Developers
Building cool websites requires tools beyond your development environment. In my last two posts, I introduced the Internet Explorer Developer Tools, and the HTML Tab within the Internet Explorer...
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How To: Put HTML5 <video> On A Page
This week has been kind of fun, we’ve been getting ready for the release of IE9 Platform Preview 3, and around 2pm PST today – it was released! The reception has been awesome so far! This is the...
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A Quick Intro: Canvas in IE9
Yesterday, with the release of Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3, the engineering team announced support for hardware accelerated <canvas>! The <canvas> element is a part of the HTML5...
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Top 10 Design Mistakes: #8
Time to continue my top ten list of web site pet peeves – and we’re in at number 8 with something that requires a little bit of balance, because for many sites, it’s a requirement, it’s the only way...
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Internet Explorer Develop Tools: CSS
In continuing my series about the IE Dev Tools that come build in to Internet Explorer – today I’ll take a look at the CSS Tab and how you can use it to add, edit, change, or remove CSS rules and dive...
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Top 10 Design Mistakes: #7
I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend, other than the weather I had a really great one – Seattle has had one of the crappiest starts to summer that I can remember in my 9 years of living here! It’s...
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How To: HSL and HSLA Color Models
HSLA is defined in the CSS3 Color Module, and is another way that designers and developers can specify the color of something via CSS. I grew up understanding color defined by light, varying the...
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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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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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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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