Category Archives: HTML5

HTML5 – Let’s Have an Understanding

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Never has a W3C specification had such a rousing impact on the technology world as HTML5.  So rousing in fact that not everyone could agree when creating the specification.  So now we have the WHATWG version of the HTML5 specification.  Then you throw in all the technical religious battles about what technology HTML5 will kill, the HTML5 as a mobile strategy discussions, and you get a lot of hype and misunderstandings.  So let’s try and clarify three misunderstandings I have heard and read.

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Front End Field Guide: HTML5 – JavaScript Selectors

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In this edition of the “Front End Field Guide” we are going to take a look at the new  HTML5 JavaScript selectors.  In the past we had only getElementById(), getElementByTag(), getElementByTagName() as selectors.  But now there are two brand new selectors available for you to use and they are querySelectorAll() and querySelector().

Technically the Selector API is not part of the HTML5 spec, but it seems to be lumped in with all the other features of HTML5. Because of this I will keep the misnomer going. So lets examine how we can take advantage of these new selectors with a few simple examples.

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cfObjective Presentations – HTML5

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I have enjoyed my time at cfObjective() 2011 immensely.  The community is really awesome and I have met so many interesting and intelligent people.  There have been some really great sessions and I am very thankful for having the opportunity to not only present, but attend this conference.

There is a strong showing of folks from The Triangle in NC and people from all over the world as well.

Below are the downloads from my presentations, do as you will with them and don’t hesitate to provide feedback or ask questions.  I am always on twitter @adrianpomilio.

Here is the code and presentation from my session: .Deep Dive – Building HTML5 and CSS3 Applications

Here is my Lightning Presentation – AdrianPomilio-CardboardBubble

Now on to the live Run Time Expectations show!