I’m Presenting at WordCamp Boston January 23, 2010

I’m excited to announce that I’m going to be speaking at the 1st WordCamp Boston. I’ll be talking about the marriage of two of my favorite technologies: WordPress and HTML5. The Future is Now: WP Themes With HTML 5 Excited about HTML5? Wish you could start using the new semantic elements right now? You can. […]

Have I Mentioned That The HTML5 DOCTYPE Makes Me Smile?

It does. Why? Well, I’ve been doing this job, at a very high level, for a long time and I couldn’t code this by hand if you paid me $50,000: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> I understand it, and I can’t remember it. That’s basically gibberish to most people. There’s no way […]

Default HTML Rendering in 81 Browsers Visualized

The following is a test of this page of unstyled, generic markup performed in 81 browsers. I used browsercam to take screen captures, then imported the resulting captures into Photoshop. In Photoshop, I zeroed out the top/left coordinates of the HTML canvas (not to be confused with the Canvas element,) and then set the Opacity […]

Sample HTML Markup Used To Style Common Text Elements

The following is what we use to lay down the most common text styles. This is honestly more than we usually need, but it helps ensure we don’t miss anything when real content is flowed into a design. I thought it might be useful for folks to use in their own projects. I’ve got a […]