HTML5 is the 5th revision of the HTML language created in 1990 for structuring and presenting content on the Internet, and an attempt to improve support for modern multimedia elements.
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What technologies do Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Edge use for HTML video playback?
We frequently see video playback bugs that are reproducible on Chrome and Firefox but not on IE, or vice versa. I am wondering if we can attribute some of these bugs to the underlying technologies ...
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Managing website navigation
I am building a web app with approx 30 odd pages. My app has a left navigation bar.
I want to know the best practices of storing the menu and its hierarchy.
hard code them in a common page
store ...
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Are there good reasons for avoiding the use of semantic HTML markup?
Background
I have recently taken up a new job as a developer at a company where I have inherited an in-house CMS built approximately 5 years ago. The CMS constructs pages in XML which are then output ...
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Is there a way to use html5 custom elements without javascript?
I know requiring javascript on a webpage has been a hot topic the last couple years.
I'm wondering if someone wanted to use custom elements but still allow the website to be usable without ...
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Abstraction in Cordova
Recently, I have been coding in Cordova a lot for the company I work for. For those of you who don't know, Cordova is a cross platform development tool for mobile applications which is web based. ...
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Where does Firebase fit in?
I am a front-end developer who is familiar with HTML, CSS, JS and to a degree, AngularJS.
I've chanced upon Firebase (firebase.google.com) - and was wondering if I could, with my lack of knowledge ...
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Help settle an argument: article element usage question
A team member and I are having a disagreement on the usage of the <article> tag. By the definition in MDN, to me, it sounds like it should be used when presenting the user with content of some ...
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Passing dynamic data to declarative resource load tags in an HTML document?
Is it possible to pass dynamic data to the browser when it automatically GETs link and img and script etc tags after it has parsed the html containing them? Ultimately would want to pass an ...
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Frontend end UI Library using multiple repos for multiple clients
I've just inherited a HTML/CSS based internal UI library, which the place I work is planning to use to standardize CSS styles for all of its products across the board, mainly webapps. The library has ...
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Using @Hidden or passing through BeginForm?
I have a small question about the following answer from a stackoverflow question.
There seem to be 2 ways to pass parameters through a @BeginForm() to a Controller.
Using a Hidden field:
@Html....
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Is there any situation where there is a good reason to use an anchor <a> element without a href attribute?
I recently came across a website that contained an anchor element without a href attribute.
I immediately thought that was stupid, but, could there be an actual situation where having an anchor ...
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Responsible CSS for mobile devices
Is this a good or best way to configure a web site HTML to add mobile users?
My site pages add Googles default meta viewport, and all code is simple (basic CSS, no frills), but flows well into narrow ...
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Drawing a data-grid on canvas - whats the point?
To simplify my question let's assume for a minute that all users are using the latest version of Chrome to view a particular website.
Using the latest libraries (Polymer for example), I can render a ...
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How do I make such a page that opens different link in web (PC) and different in mobile (phones)?
I am building a website that looks beautiful in Web but worst in mobiles. I want to build the same site but different designing for mobile. Whenever user opens site.com then it auto redirect to m.site....
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How to effectively log while avoiding a bottleneck
I have a fuzzer for x86 Internet Explorer (in HTML) that I've heavily modified to have reproducible, determinisitic crashes (so that I may perform root cause analysis faster). I'm attempting to ...
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The future of application cache in HTML 5 [closed]
I had previously deployed application storage in HTML5 to great success in the deployment stage of a few client projects. I used the app cache feature mostly as a way to allow my clients to remotely ...
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PSD to HTML/CSS limitations when using Twitter Bootstrap
How do companies deal with limitations and constraints of Twitter Bootstrap after choosing to use it in a particular project?
Web designers are no longer free to design Web pages. They need only to ...
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Showing a “context”-like menu in a span
Context of the question
(some people believe it is useless to give such details, so feel free to skip them)
It is about the MELT monitor (an alpha-stage GPLv3 free software, see also here). FWIW, I ...
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Concept to differentiate between html tags and angle brackets
I have an issue with a client's requirement that wants to import a string of html text within a csv document.
For example, a sanitized version of one import line:
"IDNumber,TextIdentifierNumber,<...
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How is FormData actually handled by a server?
I am using an embedded system with a web server. I really have no way to dig deep into the webserver and see how it works, so I am asking a more general question:
How do servers or back-end scripts (...
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Is HTML5 XHTML 1.0 compliant?
For a school assignment, I wrote up a web-page in HTML5.
After looking over the assignment's requirements again though, I found the line:
• a minimum of three HTML pages complying with at least ...
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why are iframe-s so useful in HTML5 WYSIWIG applications?
<iframe> elements are documented as
The HTML Inline Frame Element (<iframe>) represents a nested browsing context, effectively embedding another HTML page into the current page.
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Why HTML5 got rid of Rich Desktop applications? [closed]
I recently noticed that Rich desktop applications (I define it as an application running inside a virtual machine embded in a web browser, based on tools like Java Web Start, Adobe Flash or Unity web ...
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Advice on streaming architecture [closed]
I want to be able to stream my desktop to 1 other person (and in the future to possibly more people). The stream should be watchable from a browser or a mobile app (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) ...
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Create 2D drawing with touch screen that also works in IE
I have a page the allows a user to create a signature using a touch screen or mouse. The touch screen works fine in Chrome but not in IE. Most of the time IE does not 'detect' that I am using a touch ...
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Multiple Canvas in the Browser — How to Proceed?
Here's something I wrote ages ago as Java applet. I want to convert it into JavaScript and run in html5 canvas in the browser. From what I can see, canvas makes the most sense here. (SVG / DIV ...
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Is there an algorithm to avoid getting in hundreds of datapoints from API to represent a bar graph?
I am showing a graph on HTML5 canvas using the flot charting library for a between a start date and an end date. It's fine as long as the period is less than a year or so but if the user selects a big ...
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Is automatically generating passwords during registration a good idea?
I'm developing a registration system for a project I'm working on.
Since users tend not to sign up if the process is too long, I've thought to require (at least initially) just their email, where I ...
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Clear JQuery Listeners Before Ajax Load of Similar Data
I have a tree structure on the left side of my page from which the user can drill down and select items. Each branch has similar items. When clicking a leaf node, I make a JQuery .load(...) call that ...
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Crypto hash in 'a href'?
It seems to me that it would be pretty useful to be able to indicate an expected crypto hash value in file downloads especially since so many application and data downloads rely on mirrored hosting. ...
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Porting Silverligtht application to web application with Asp.net and HTML 5
I work as internal software developer. We used Silverlight to build our application, but we have been asked to start considering their replacement.
Currently our set-up is:
Silverlight application ...
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Semantics of heading levels in multiple sections in HTML5
I'm never quite sure what is the best, most semantic way to handle heading levels in HTML5 markup, when you have multiple sections. On one hand it makes sense to have an H1 heading as a title of a ...
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Why html entity names for characters like ¥ € ¢ © ®
It make sense to use entity names for describing <a> as per shown below code.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title> My First Webpage</title>
&...
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Does HTML 5 undercut the need for a full-featured Javascript framework? [closed]
We're redesigning a website. Right now it uses Dojo, a large (and complex) Javascript framework. One person insists that we need Dojo because of things like (random examples) client-side ...
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Reason why client-side JavaScript does not allow access to POST/PUT/etc contents
Is there any theoretical reason why client-side JavaScript could not be spec'd to allow for direct access to POST or PUT contents without need for a server language to write it into client-side ...
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Web components and performance
I am having trouble learning about the impact of web components and shadow DOM on the browser, specifically related to repaint.
I remember reading at one point that the shadow DOM nodes have ...
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What is the HTML 4 DTD role in HTML5
All, I know there are three types of DTD for HTML 4.01 (strict, transitional, and frameset). And I knew the DTD defines the syntax of markup constructs and the document structure with a list of legal ...
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Understand SGML and HTML
When I read the HTML 4 Specification.
The document says :
Each markup language defined in SGML is called an SGML application. An SGML application is generally characterized by:
An SGML ...
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Why use iFrames in a web application? [closed]
I am new at a company that has a saas web application, which uses iframes to load content from several different servers (all operated by us). Is there any known compelling reasons to use iFrames ...
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What's the best semantic html5 tag for an action menu
I want to create an action menu to trigger some actions on a single page application and I wonder what's the most appropriated html5 tag for this?
I know the nav tag but it seems more suited for ...
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How do browsers handle URLs in HTML5 offline mode?
I just read the de facto standard for HTML5 offline/localStorage.
It has me curious: if I build my web app to work regardless of whether or not there's an internet connection, and I use HTML5 ...
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Should I mark what blocks mean in data-* attributes?
I was writing a webpage today with a comment after the start of every major section. Instead of using a comment, which comes with the bulgy <!-- --> syntax, could I instead put this in a data-* ...
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How does contenteditable work?
I recently came across an article where if you enter
data:text/html,%20<html contenteditable>
into the address bar of a browser that supports HTML5, you can type in the window.
I managed to ...
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What is meant by an HTML5 application? [closed]
Since HTML5 is still only a markup language, what is meant when people say "HTML5 application"? Please explain.
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Old Browsers and Polyfills
Polyfilling, when is it too much?
I've summed up this question into one sentance.
Is it practical to polyfill all of the IE8 deficiencies with one solid javascript file, as in, would there be any ...
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Should the check correctness of a time constrained puzzle game application be done on the server side?
I am working on an application where a user has to complete a puzzle and check within a given time limit.
This is an HTML5 based game, I can't keep the solution on the client side.
but I also want ...
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Suggested setup for angularJS development in Visual Studio 2013 [closed]
I am starting with AngularJS. The back end will be Web API (which is new to me as well) and I'd like to use just one IDE, so I'm trying to figure out how to setup a project in Visual Studio 2013 for ...
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Javascript MVC application design (canvas)
I'm having difficulty grasping how to structure/architect a canvas application using an MVC like approach in Javascript. UI will be fairly fluid and animated, the games fairly simplistic but with ...
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Should we use any JS framework which makes HTML as scripting language [closed]
After studying HTML 5, I learnt that HTML is purely for defining semantics of data. And it has provided various tag for each purpose. Although we can create our own tags, can provide styling and it ...
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Why do we have to use divs?
This morning, as I was writing some html and haml, it occurred to me that the way divs are used is ridiculous.
Why are divs not implied? Imagine if this:
<div class="hero-img">
<img src="...
