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Google talking about HTML 5 and the Mobile Web

8. April 2009

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The Google Mobile folks talked about the new Gmail Mobile launch that uses HTML 5 technology to speed up the experience, and work offline. On the developer side of the house we get to see a little teaser of what the team will be sharing with us: Of course we didn't get there without a few hard [...]

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HTML 5 section is not just a “semantic div”

20. March 2009

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James Graham of Opera has a post about how section is not just a semantic div that argues against the folks that think that we can get by with just div class="section" for example: HTML 5 introduces new elements like <section>, <article> and <footer> for structuring the content in your webpages. They can be employed in [...]

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IE 8 Launches at MIX09, probably without one of your features

20. March 2009

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You may have noticed that day 2 at MIX was IE8 day (compared to the Silverlight 3 day one) in that the puppy launched! This is good news in that IE 8 is better than IE 7, which is better than IE 6. Maybe, with 6 being two versions back, we have more weight to get [...]

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Custom info windows with jQuery and Google Maps

13. March 2009

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Ben Nolan has a writeup on a new feature in his Weheartplaces application that tweaks the info popup that comes with Google Maps by using a custom overlay. He walks us through an example that ends up with an Infowin class like this: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   // Infowin class for displaying a miniature info window. Does not // respond [...]

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