A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 291

September 1, 2009

A big new markup language and tiny UX changes that make all the difference.

Inline Validation in Web Forms

by Luke Wroblewski

Web forms don’t have to be irritating, and your inline validation choices don't have to be based on wild guesses. In his examination of inline form validation options, Luke Wroblewski offers that rarest of beasts: actual data about which things make people smile and which make them want to stab your website with a fork.

Get Ready for HTML 5

by J. David Eisenberg

Ready or not, here it comes. Despite the confusion surrounding its evolution, real-world HTML 5 is right around the corner. Longtime ALA contributor J. David Eisenberg returns to get us all up to speed on the markup we’re about to be writing.

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Editor’s Choice

originally ran: December 4, 2007

A Preview of HTML 5

by Lachlan Hunt

Who's afraid of HTML 5? Not Lachlan Hunt! As both a front-end web developer and a contributor to HTML 5, he tells us what we can expect from the emerging markup specification, whose goals include more flexibility and greater interoperability.