Long-time Codestorer Ferdy Christant has finally launched his JungleDragon website. The least I could do for all the invaluable feedback he's provided on here over the years is pay it forward with a tiny slice of PageRank pie.
The site is like a "Flickr for wildlife". Take a look around. While there, note that it was all built by one person!
Written by Jake Howlett on Tue 12 Apr 2011
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Yep. Been following the development of this with great interest. Already started uploading some of my photos. Loads more still to go.
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I noticed you're a prolific commentator over there now. Does that explain your absence here? ;-)
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Very cool website, and it contains lots of HTML5 tags
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Yeah, kudos to Ferdy for that. I used to pride myself on being "ahead of the curve" on stuff like that, but have fallen behind somewhat.
Worth looking at the source of his site if you want a glimpse of the future of HTML coding.
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"Catching up" is easy. My HTML5 usage can be summarized as follow:
- HTML5 doctype
- Usage of HTML5 new semantic elements (header, footer, aside, figure, etc). Don't forget to include the html5shiv so that IE < 9 can style these new elements in CSS
- Some basic HTML5 form properties, such as the placeholder attribute and new input types (for example "email").
All of this is just a slight variation of what you are already doing. You can start using it in your next project and it will work in all browsers.
Don't wait for HTML5 to be completed. It never will. In fact, it doesn't exist anymore. It is simply "HTML" now and defined as a "living" standard. All you need to do is handpick what is safe to use for your audience. In the odd case that you find yourself in love with an unsafe feature, visit this page that collects all fallbacks known to man:
https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-browser-Polyfills
In return of this awesome advise, all who read this must now join JungleDragon:
http://www.jungledragon.com/join
I figure that if this blog entry is about promoting me, I might as well go all the way :)
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Very nice Ferdy I'm impressed !!!!!
so much so that I have emailed the link to 22 people,
that's quite a lot for me.
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Good job, Jakes dad! Thank you so much. I think Jakes' cousin already signed up. Please tell those 22 people to also tell their 22 people :)
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