A while back I wrote about using HTML5 local storage engine for storing websites data locally on a client device for caching or off line use. The W3 recommendation on web storage recommends a size limit on the amount of data storage allowed per origin. This has currently been implemented…
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HTML5 Offline Storage
HTML5 introduces a pretty handy ability to cache remote resources locally for off-line use, meaning the resources are downloaded once. Then when the page is used again in the future the local (cached) copies of the file will be used instead of requesting the files from the server again. Why…
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Client Side Image Place Holders Made Easy
For years designers and developers have used “Lorem ipsum” as a standard placeholder text when creating page layouts. When incorporating images into the body design though the standard approach is a little less straight forward. With images having to be made or resized first to the required dimensions and then…
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HTML5 Placeholders With jQuery
HTML 5 brings many new features to the browser including a lot of enhancements to the way forms are created and handled. One of my favourite features is the introduction of the placeholder attribute, this allows the display of some text in a text input field or text area until…
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