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HTML5Rocks now on Github

64 points by kinlan 14y ago

NanoWar 14y ago
This has been a very good resource in the past. Thanks for sharing!
benjaminwootton 14y ago
Is it just me or is the adoption of HTML5 stalling? So much innovation seems to be coming out of the Javascript, client side JS, mobile development stacks that HTML5 seems from the outside like a set of solutions to partially solved problems. It doesn't seem to be getting as much attention as it might. I admit I don't mix in these circles much so interested in learning here...
- acoyfellow 14y ago
  It gets such bad press over the "Native vs HTML5" debate- but I think people often forget how much more important that a cross-platform universal (much easier to grasp) way to make apps is so important.. (Especially bootstrapping entrepreneurs)
- joshuacc 14y ago
  A lot of the innovation happening in client-side JavaScript right now is based on HTML5 technologies like Web Workers, "data-" attributes, Canvas, Local Storage, etc. If you read through HTML5Rocks.com, you'll see that many of the things it talks about are new APIs available to JS in the browser.
  - statictype 14y ago
    What innovations were possible with the "data-" attributes? As far as I know, they just provide a standardized way of naming custom attributes. I've been using custom attributes in html tags for unobtrusive javascript before I knew the data- attributes existed. Do they provide any extra functionality as such (like a faster/optimized querying api) ? Or is it just a promise that attributes beginning with "data-" will never be used as part of the HTML standard?
    - masklinn 14y ago
      > Or is it just a promise that attributes beginning with "data-" will never be used as part of the HTML standard? Just that. Some libraries do build upon that though, e.g. in jQuery, $el.data('key') will fall back on the @data-key attribute if it does not find the key in its internal store.
- mmahemoff 14y ago
  HTML5 is going full-steam ahead with the browsers competing to add features and improve implementations. But, HTML5 on mobile is still a huge pain in practice, if you want to go beyond a basic content app. e.g. you can't do anything in the background or triggered by alarms/geofencing type events, can't do notifications or widgets, graphics/multimedia can be slow, even basic UI components like fixed nav-bars have buggy implementations. It's still great to use HTML5 to build a fully functioning web presence across devices. And HTML5 on desktop is very solid now as a full-featured application platform. I wouldn't say adoption is slowing down in absolute terms. It's just that it's not reached its full potential as many of us had anticipated a couple of years back, because it's not (yet) a viable implementation choice for most mobile/tablet apps.
- salmanapk 14y ago
  Have you seen Windows 8?
mmahemoff 14y ago
This is exciting to see. Updating the project on its previous Mercury setup on Google Code was never a pleasant experience, especially with the various branches going on. GitHub will make it a lot easier for people to contribute to HTML5Rocks, whether it's full articles or typo fixes. A nice touch is that this is hosted on a new https://github.com/html5rocks https://github.com/html5rocks account, rather than https://github.com/GoogleChrome https://github.com/GoogleChrome.
- kinlan 14y ago
  We still need to get the contribution guide sorted and in the flow for git and importantly github. Ideally we will merge in with the issue tracker too.
olivierntk 14y ago
The best thing for HTML5Rocks would be a serie of screencasts ... Short and to the point similar to Ryan Bate's railscasts. But the site still rocks :)

64 points by kinlan 14y ago

This has been a very good resource in the past. Thanks for sharing!

Is it just me or is the adoption of HTML5 stalling? So much innovation seems to be coming out of the Javascript, client side JS, mobile development stacks that HTML5 seems from the outside like a set of solutions to partially solved problems. It doesn't seem to be getting as much attention as it might. I admit I don't mix in these circles much so interested in learning here...

acoyfellow 14y ago
It gets such bad press over the "Native vs HTML5" debate- but I think people often forget how much more important that a cross-platform universal (much easier to grasp) way to make apps is so important.. (Especially bootstrapping entrepreneurs)
joshuacc 14y ago
A lot of the innovation happening in client-side JavaScript right now is based on HTML5 technologies like Web Workers, "data-" attributes, Canvas, Local Storage, etc. If you read through HTML5Rocks.com, you'll see that many of the things it talks about are new APIs available to JS in the browser.
- statictype 14y ago
  What innovations were possible with the "data-" attributes? As far as I know, they just provide a standardized way of naming custom attributes. I've been using custom attributes in html tags for unobtrusive javascript before I knew the data- attributes existed. Do they provide any extra functionality as such (like a faster/optimized querying api) ? Or is it just a promise that attributes beginning with "data-" will never be used as part of the HTML standard?
  - masklinn 14y ago
    > Or is it just a promise that attributes beginning with "data-" will never be used as part of the HTML standard? Just that. Some libraries do build upon that though, e.g. in jQuery, $el.data('key') will fall back on the @data-key attribute if it does not find the key in its internal store.
mmahemoff 14y ago
HTML5 is going full-steam ahead with the browsers competing to add features and improve implementations. But, HTML5 on mobile is still a huge pain in practice, if you want to go beyond a basic content app. e.g. you can't do anything in the background or triggered by alarms/geofencing type events, can't do notifications or widgets, graphics/multimedia can be slow, even basic UI components like fixed nav-bars have buggy implementations. It's still great to use HTML5 to build a fully functioning web presence across devices. And HTML5 on desktop is very solid now as a full-featured application platform. I wouldn't say adoption is slowing down in absolute terms. It's just that it's not reached its full potential as many of us had anticipated a couple of years back, because it's not (yet) a viable implementation choice for most mobile/tablet apps.
salmanapk 14y ago
Have you seen Windows 8?

mmahemoff 14y ago

This is exciting to see. Updating the project on its previous Mercury setup on Google Code was never a pleasant experience, especially with the various branches going on. GitHub will make it a lot easier for people to contribute to HTML5Rocks, whether it's full articles or typo fixes. A nice touch is that this is hosted on a new https://github.com/html5rocks https://github.com/html5rocks account, rather than https://github.com/GoogleChrome https://github.com/GoogleChrome.

kinlan 14y ago
We still need to get the contribution guide sorted and in the flow for git and importantly github. Ideally we will merge in with the issue tracker too.

olivierntk 14y ago

The best thing for HTML5Rocks would be a serie of screencasts ... Short and to the point similar to Ryan Bate's railscasts. But the site still rocks :)