Up close and personal with HTML5 IndexedDB
Over the years, the web has increasingly transformed from being a repository of content to a marketplace of full-fledged functional apps. The suite of technologies that fall under the “HTML5” banner have, as a fundamental goal, the capabilities to build within this new breed of software. In this article, I’ll review a technology that solves an important piece of the application puzzle—managing storage and retrieval of user-specific data on the client side—called “IndexedDB.”
Case Study: Huffington Post - Reinventing the "Big News" Experience with IE9 Pinned Sites
The Huffington Post takes broad leaps in creating the perfect site to take advantage of all that IE9, HTML5 and CSS3 has to offer. From Site Pinning to Favicons and everything in between. This article is a case study of how Big News reinvents the news site.
Responsive Web Design
It all started with "Responsive Web Design", an article by Ethan Marcotte on A List Apart. Essentially, the article proposed addressing the ever-changing landscape of devices, browsers, screen sizes and orientations by creating flexible, fluid and adaptive Web sites. Instead of responding to today’s needs for a desktop, Web version adapted to the most common screen resolution, along with a particular mobile version (often specific to a single mobile device), the idea is to approach the issue the other way around: use flexible and fluid layouts that adapt to almost any screen.
Browser and Feature Detection: Make Your Website Look Great Everywhere
When you’re building a web site, you want it to look great in any browser…and ideally, it should look great for a long time, even in future versions of the browsers. I’ve pulled together some hints, tips and best practices that will help your sites look their best.
