July 3, 2011
by Graham
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Although HTML5 is becoming more popular with coders, there are still those who are hesitant about adopting the latest markup for fear of the lack of support from older browsers. Luckily, there are some cool new HTML5 form attributes that degrade gracefully in older browsers (even IE6!).
This summary of some new attributes will discuss HTML5 autofocus field, placeholder text, form validation as well as new input types (email, numbers, URL, etc.).
July 18, 2010
by Graham
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I was recently asked to write some HTML for a e-mail newsletter and I was forced to recall what it was like to design layout using tables (bleh!). Of course there are still some designers out there who argue that using tables for layout is just fine and that harking on about divs and the semantic web is overreacting. Admittedly, it’s very quick and easy to come up the desired structure using a GUI like Dreamweaver, but it’s just not good practice.
I’ve compiled a list of reasons why tables should NOT be used for layout. Continue reading