HTML5 Tutorials
HTML5′s placeholder Attribute
HTML5 has introduced many features to the browser; some HTML-based, some in the form of JavaScript APIs, but all of them useful. One of my favorites if the introduction of the placeholder attribute to INPUT elements. The placeholder attribute shows text in a field until the field is focused upon, then hides the text. You've seen this technique a billion times with JavaScript!
HTML5: Wrap Block-Level Elements with A’s
HTML5 presents a simpler line of thought with HTML than XHTML. And quite honestly, it's a much needed simplification. One of those simplifications is the ability to wrap block-level elements like DIVs, H-tags, and P's with basic A elements. You read that correctly: wrap block-level elements with A tags.
HTML5 classList API
Having thrust myself into the world of JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries, I've often wondered: When are browser vendors going to see the helper methods/libraries created by the JavaScript toolkits and implement these functionalities natively within the browser? I realize that standards are important and browser vendors can't afford to half-ass these implementations but I do believe they could be...expedited. The good news is that one of these functionalities has been add to the HTML5 API; classList.
HTML5 Link Prefetching
One effort shared by both browsers and developers is making the web browsing experience faster. There are many common-known ways to keep your websites fast: using CSS sprites and image optimization, using .htaccess to set file headers for longer caching, javascript file compression, using CDNs, and so on. I've even detailed some of the website optimization efforts used on this website. Firefox introduces a new strategy for website optimization: link prefetching.
Using HTML5 Web Storage
HTML5 is the biggest buzz word in web development today. The new features promised by HTML5 will be a huge boost to web developers looking to stop rigging up ways to make their websites better, faster, and more flexible. One feature that's caught my eye is HTML5's Web Storage. Web Storage provides a client-side method for saving session information. Take a look at how Web Storage works!