Comments for HTML5 Doctor

Comment on How to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines by creativehorse

creativehorse — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:37:00 +0000

nice

very

GOOD !

Comment on The time element (and microformats) by David Knowles

David Knowles — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:58:54 +0000

How can I use the time tag to define NOW: the present.

Currently using the code underneath, but next year this won’t be accurate

Present

Looking at the spec, it doesn’t seem possible to define ‘NOW’. That’s a nuisance. Any ideas on how to approach this?

Comment on Semantic navigation with the nav element by Travis

Travis — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:10:56 +0000

What about adding the role of navigation to the nav element? Is this redundant? Or is it a good practice for the sake of screen readers?

Comment on Go offline with application cache by Muhammad Adnan

Muhammad Adnan — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:34:47 +0000

nad and @Cody: I’m looking the same thing

“” I want something like this.
If the user is online, fetch pages from the server.
If the user is offline, fetch pages from the HTML5 App cache.
Can this be done with HTML5. Please comment “”

Comment on How to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines by Niels Matthijs

Niels Matthijs — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:48 +0000

Wow, never really knew that changing the css display property of a span would even affect AT users, that is definitely good to know.

Still feels a bit like cheating though, because a span with display:block is really just a div, so why not use a div instead (I know, the spec doesn’t allow it, but clearly that rule is a bit too strict).

Comment on HTML5 Custom Data Attributes (data-*) by Martin Rohwedder

Martin Rohwedder — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:13:01 +0000

Nice explanation thank you!

Comment on Native Drag and Drop by sylvain

sylvain — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:40:22 +0000

Hello,

I checked “drag icon” demo on different browsers. It works fine for most of them except for IE10.
on IE10, default image is used (instead of twitter icon). So, it seems setDragImage is inoperative for IE. Am I wrong ? Which workaround can be used for IE ? any idea ?

Thank you for this article

Best Regards
Sylvain

Comment on Storing Data the Simple HTML5 Way (and a few tricks you might not have known) by Halcyon

Halcyon — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:52:44 +0000

Good article, helped me get started on using web storage quickly!
Thanks.

Comment on September HTML5 spec changes by Roy

Roy — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:43:56 +0000

I’m sad that there hasn’t really been any clear winner for how to mark up a dialog. I’m not even talking creating new elements for this purpose, but just using a p tag doesn’t quite work either.

I suppose if I had to pick one of the options here, it’d be to go with the “” element even though it’s not necessarily prescribed in html5. But I still can’t help thinking that marking up people’s names is so woefully unassisted by elements, yet we have to do it all the time. Why haven’t we arrived at a better solution?

Comment on Document Outlines by Matthew Trow

Matthew Trow — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:53:04 +0000

Always using in a section heading presents somewhat of a problem from a visual CSS perspective, making it an unrealistic option.

If a main section has an tag, with a specific font-weight and size, generally, each child section would have a visual representation that it’s a sibling – normally a smaller font size and/or have less weight.

Therefore it makes a great deal more sense to continue to use the heading tags h1 through to h6 appropriately.