Using HTML5 Geolocation API with Google, Bing and Nokia Maps

November 26, 2011 HTML5 11 comments



HTML5 Geolocation API allows users to share their location with web applications by capturing the approximate longitude and latitude coordinates of the user with their permission. The Geolocation feature can be used to enrich many types of web applications by adding automatic location information. For example, users can share their locations with their friends in a social network, can be guided to a direction or location based ads can be displayed. The Geolocation API can be paired up with different maps, such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Bing Maps or Nokia Ovi Maps.

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HTML5 In-line text editing and storing to database

September 28, 2011 HTML5, jQuery, PHP 54 comments

The HTML5 specification includes contentEditable attribute, which has been supported by most of browsers for quite some time. It gives ability to edit the page directly in the browser window. You can specify particular parts of a page which should be editable in a very easy way. At its simplest, all you have to do is to add the tag attribute contentEditable to the element. The contenteditable attribute can be applied to any HTML element, for example images, lists, and even video content. However, it allows to edit the text only, the other elements can be only removed.

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Creating HTML5 Offline Applications

August 13, 2011 HTML5 8 comments

The Application Cache or AppCache is a new feature of HTML5, which offers a smarter way to cache the web application, making it available offline.  The AppCache is a simple mechanism, it allows a developer to specify which files should be cached by the browser and available to the offline users. Once the resources are cached, the user browser retrieve them from local computer instead of web server.

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Getting started with HTML5

May 24, 2011 HTML5 16 comments

HTML5 is the latest revision of HTML, with the goal to make it easier to develop web applications. HTML5 has much simple syntax compared to HTML 4 and it offers lots of new features. This articles gives introduction to HTML5.

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