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re: Is Pinterest’s HTML5 app short-changing users?

timothy — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:45:20 GMT

pinterest is a good website, and their iphone app is really cool,

but is not enough organized to archive all my web content other than images.

recently one of my friends suggested to move to clipix.com . I will check their app also

and comment back soon, thanks for that great article!

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

thebeebs — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:52:10 GMT

@nick totally agree. As with everything there are always exeptions.

re: Using App Cache

thebeebs — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:48:00 GMT

I'm happy with HTML

re: 8 things you should know before building an HTML5 app

Jens Lewald — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:39:14 GMT

The best tip is to do not write HTML4.5 Websites.

The best tip is to write Native Apps.

re: Using App Cache

Master of Desaster — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:08:44 GMT

No one love HTML.

Use your time to build more solid Plattforms. Not the bullshi... like HTML

re: How to name a web browser (by those who have)

pin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:17:56 GMT

There are many good but <a href="pinappu.hubpages.com/hub/5-Unknown-Web-Browsers-that-are-worth-a-try"> unknown web browsers.</a>

re: How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery

Kaizoku — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:12:25 GMT

Great tutorial, however I would prefer to call stop() before calling animate() in the chain, this will improve responsiveness when clicking too fast.

re: 10 myths holding HTML5 back

Mark Struck — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:27:53 GMT

You might want to re-title your post as "10 myths holding HTML5 back with Microsoft developers". As they seem to be the ones that complain the most regarding HTML 5.

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

Nick — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:47:21 GMT

While I'm in agreement with some of what this post says, I have to say that I see nothing wrong with the occasional browser sniff depending on what you're trying to do.

I often use it (with no problems - yet) to detect if the user is on an iPhone or iPad - usually because the page they are visiting requires them to upload something, which you can't do on both these devices as they have no file structure as such, and, as far as I know there is no way to use browser detection to get through this.

re: How to name a web browser (by those who have)

oneblankspace — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:54:48 GMT

I assume Lynx was named because of the links?

re: 10 myths holding HTML5 back

thebeebs — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:18:44 GMT

@niclas so in regard to the tool chain. I use Expression design or Adobe Fireworks for comps, more recently I have been dabbiling with inbrowser design (using IE9/IE10 dev tools).

For refactoring I use ReSharper in VS2010 (it has some great JavaScript support).

For debugging VS2010 allows you to add watches, break points, step in and out of JavaScript. You can also debug in the browser using IE dev tools.

For testing I have a build process very similar to my C# work I run regular regression tests. I use qUnit for unit testing and JSlint for code quality (there is a great VS2010 plugin).

I'm working towards a TDD workflow but haven't quite got there yet with my JavaScript work in the same way I have for my C# work.

As for IE10... I'll report the bug back to the team, What device are you running on?

re: 10 myths holding HTML5 back

Niclas Lindgren — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:52:11 GMT

By Tools I actually mean a full chain of Tools from design, debugging, refactoring, testing frameworks, CI builds all working together. HTML is mostly done today either with something like GWT or by hand in a text editor of choice. Readily unproductive, but I guess you have to have been productive once to discern the difference.

Try using IE10 and type into the textbox, the more characters you end up with the more lag you get.

re: 10 myths holding HTML5 back

thebeebs — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:42:50 GMT

@niclas I refer you back to Myth 9: There are no tools for HTML5. I don't really understand what you mean about Windows 8 and IE10 missing letters?

re: Why Don't you need to close tags in HTML5?

tkrause — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:31:17 GMT

How to force XHTML5? Is there a special DOCTYPE for that?

re: 10 myths holding HTML5 back

Niclas Lindgren — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:07:59 GMT

The truth of the matter is that the development Tools for HML5 at the moment are truly sub par with what you find for both flash and even Silverlight.

As a matter of fact, try using Windows 8 IE10 and type into this textbox once(at least if you are a somewhat fast typer, see how many letters are missing, now do the same in Chrome and see why many developers that once left HTML/Javascript behind hoped it would stay there.

HTML5 is not a step forward, sadly, if you compare to good UI apps today, try to find any HTML app that beats a normal app.

re: Why Don't you need to close tags in HTML5?

OCD2 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:06:47 GMT

"that it' doesn't have" :-)

re: Why Don't you need to close tags in HTML5?

Josh — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:06:11 GMT

"makes makes the OCD side" ... that an attempt at irony?

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

greench — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:14:26 GMT

One more thank you for one another Opera user :)

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

Diego — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:51:07 GMT

A thank you from another Opera user. o/

re: How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery

Pixelless — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:01:11 GMT

Great tutorial, thanks. Even it is too advanced for me, i love this kind of layout & will try to design my own web site on similar example.

I am trying to learn HTML&CSS from scratch, still working with TextEditor, but I feel I should move on to something. I saw that people use Dreamweaver, but it is bit too expensive for a beginner. It would be interesting to hear what are you guys using.

Cheers

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

Andrew — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:10:07 GMT

Thank you!

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

Mike — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:05:12 GMT

Doing web design for a living, I am in total agreement with the sentiment of this post. As an Opera user, I always appreciate when sites don't discriminate.

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

thebeebs — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:08:30 GMT

@Abhilash you came to the site using a short URL that I made when I thought I was going to publish the article on Wednesday (the 8th of Febuary). You will notice that you can use the the URL 2012/02/08 or 2012/02/06. I decided to publish the article early, I forgot to change the short URL.

As for Bing... they don't publish a video background every day. As I write this there is a video of the Northern lights Vee Lake Canada which was published 6 days ago. You can flip to previous days using the arrows on the bottom right of the picture.

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

Abhilash — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:36:50 GMT

Why does the article url have 2012/02/08 ? :)

Did not work for me. I tried with Bing US as well

re: Turning up our noses at browser sniffing

Lars — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:30:36 GMT

A thank you from another Opera user.