blog.munimkazia.com » html5 http://blog.munimkazia.com Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:49:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Why bother? http://blog.munimkazia.com/2010/05/04/why-bother/ http://blog.munimkazia.com/2010/05/04/why-bother/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 13:42:32 +0000 Munim http://blog.munimkazia.com/?p=27 I look around and I find tons of beautiful minimalist wordpress themes. Why should I bother designing and coding my own? So I finally gave in and installed Carrington text (http://text.carringtontheme.com/). Looks pretty neat. It doesn’t go with my main page’s design.. but who gives a rat’s ass. Personally, for blogs with a lot of text, I like reading dark text on a light background.

So if you haven’t heard already, Microsoft has declared that it won’t support flash out of the box unlike Chrome, which will be integrated with Flash. Their statements about commitment to HTML5 does sound very reassuring. I hope the days of browser incompatibility and ugly code are finally getting over.

On the personal front, I have decided that I am still not ready for a full time commitment to any employer as of now. Development contracts are pouring in and should be enough to keep me happy for a while. It is kinda disturbing when your demanding job prevents you doing normal things like shopping for essentials or getting a haircut. Anyway more about this later. I will have some pretty big announcements to make in a while.

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So, just as a simple test, I have made a HTML5 version of http://munimkazia.com(xhtml strict) at http://munimkazia.com/index5.php. There is a nice piece of javascript code called html5shiv which fixes a few DOM issues of using semantic markup tags like <header>, <footer>, <article>, etc in internet explorer. Visit the website for more details: http://remysharp.com/2009/01/07/html5-enabling-script/. But I feel the most exciting things about HTML5 are the canvas element, the new input tags and  microdata.Audio and Video elements is also something to look forward to. If only those guys would stop arguing about what formats to support as standard.

If you are as excited as me about HTML5 and want to learn more about it, there is a nice online book you can refer: Dive Into HTML5.

Next step: Finish off this wordpress theme in html5! Sadly, I don’t have much time to fix even the smallest of issues with this wordpress theme, like the paddings and margins everywhere.

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