html5

Does anyone know of an embeddable video player that plays m3u8 video files?

I'm trying to find an embeddable HTML5 video player that recognizes and plays m3u8 files to be viewed on a website, so we can use the same video resources we're already creating for mobile deployment. ...

Web charting libraries for mobile, our own research

We are looking for a nice javascript-based library for a web charting application we have been asked to do. The charts will be accessible and should actually be nice to interact with via mobile devices (iOS, Android, and the like). The user will be able to drill-down into some datasets, so the snappier (both processing graphics and loadi...

HTML5 in IE6 when JavaScript is disabled

My site uses an HTML5shiv for the benefit of Internet Explorer 6 users. What will happen if they have JavaScript disabled? Will the CSS for my fancy new elements (video, article etc) still work? ...

webkit animation props

is there a way to get a webkit animation to run indefinitely? ...

ipad is drawing text out of canvas area

I am drawing a text in canvas. Its working fine in all other browsers but in ipad safari, its drawing text outside the canvas area and the text is flipped too. context.font = "14px Arial"; context.fillStyle = "#000000"; context.textAlign = "center"; context.fillText('text', 20, 20,300); context.stroke(); context.closePath(); ...

Different types of browser storage

From this slideshow http://slides.html5rocks.com/#slide8 and from Chrome: View > Developer > Developer Tools > Storage tab, I learned that there are at least 4 types of browser storage: Databases, Local Storage, Session Storage, Cookies (are there more?) What are the differences? When should I use one over the other? For example, if a...

How does facebook rewrite the source URL of a page in the browser address bar?

Go to http://www.facebook.com/facebook?v=wall, then click on the info tab. The content will be loaded, and the address bar now becomes http://www.facebook.com/facebook?v=info but the webpage didn't reload. At first I think it is Ajax, but my question is, how do you change the address bar without reloading? I know I can change anchor (#w...

canvas drawImage doesn't draw images the first time

I'm working on a simple JavaScript game using HTML5 canvas. It's a very typical game-loop setup involving: init() function that initializes objects to be used the playfield, randomizing some start x/y positions and similar setup tasks draw() function that draws all the game objects, including some simple canvas shapes and a few images ...

Index Music Files Using Flash/HTML5/JavaScript

How can I index mp3 files on user side and create a database of file name, artist name album name etc and upload them on a server? I would like a HTML 5 solution, although Flash or JavaScript would do. ...

How do I code a GUI Selection Box?

I want to build into my app a way to select multiple objects on the screen (this is an HTML page with a bunch of absolutely positioned HTML divs). You know, like when you click down with the mouse and drag a transparent/translucent box and anything within that box gets selected upon mouse release? I don't know how to go about coding tha...

Is it valid HTML5 to use a single tag for a div?

For example: <div/> instead of <div></div>. I did this and apparently the HTML5 validator passed this as valid. I was wondering it this is actually true? PS: I'm serving page as application/xhtml+xml ...

How to hear the audio of a text to speech translation

I would want to hear the audio, when I click on an image (e.g. an audio image). The sound file for a sentence is obtained via google translate. I would like to do this without getting re-directed to a different page. How should I do this? I tried using the HTML5 audio tag, but didn't succeed either. <html> <body> <a href="http://transla...

what html5 boiler plate stands for ?

Like its style.css has body {background:transparent} So am i suppose to keep background transparent always to make good html5 website ? Are these default ? Should i override them as per my website ? ...

HTML5 + LLVM = Win? Or not existent?

I tried a simple breakout clone in a browser and saw it take 25% of my CPU. Sad. I was wondering if LLVM can hook into HTML5 and take advantage of canvus, SVG and etc. If not does LLVM have its own multimedia layer? I ran my version of chrome with --enable-nacl and it looks like it is enabled (half of the native client demos ran http://...

HTML5shiv vs Dean Edwards IE7-js vs Modernizr. Which to choose?

hey all, I'm looking to build my first html5 site and have been looking at working with IE. There is html5shiv, dean edwards ie7-js and then modernizr. Are these all largely the same? I'm confused about which route to go. Thanks for any answers :) ...

PHP & localStorage;

I've searched around for use of localStorage in PHP, as I need to get localStorage data as a $var, in PHP and do stuff in PHP with it. Is this possible? Thanks! P.S. If anybody knows of any good HTML5 resources, other than what can be easily found on Google, please share? :) ...

Should I use HTML 5 <nav> for footer links also, which are not primary navigation?

Sould I use HTML 5 <nav> for footer links also, which are not primary navigation? or it should be once in a page? ...

Html5 <nav> tag use

Can we use <nav> tag with the rest of <header> tag in HTML 5? ...

What HTML5 markup do you recommend for a multipage book?

Hello, I'm writing a small book in HTML5 which is divided into chapters and sections like this: chapter1.html - intro to chapter 1 chapter1section1.html - section 1.1 chapter1section2.html - section 1.2 chapter2.html - intro to chapter 2 chapter2section1.html - section 2.1 chapter2section2.html - section 2.2 As soon as...

Access js localStorage stored value in VB.Net

I have a login page that stores a few values to localStorage (html5) then continues to a VB.Net page. I am looking for a method in VB that can read back those stored values and make them VB vars. Any ideas? ...