Christopher Blizzard · intellectual honesty and html5 - "The most important aspect of HTML5 isn’t the new stuff like video and canvas (which Safari and Firefox have both been shipping for years) it’s actually the honest-to-god promise of interoperability."Tags: BlogPost; HTML5; Standards; 

Export SVG from Raphael JS to create a PNG bitmap | Ben Barnett - Some server side trickery to create static images out of SVG created by Raphaël, even if the SVG is really VML in IE.Tags: BlogPost; SVG; Javascript; PHP; 

html5 laboratory - experiments with html5 - Ian Devlin's personal HTML5 playground.Tags: HTML5; Reference; 

Book owners have smarter kids - Laura Miller - Salon.com - "[A]nother study... found that simply giving low-income children 12 books (of their own choosing) on the first day of summer vacation 'may be as effective as summer school' in preventing 'summer slide' -- the degree to which lower-income students slip behind their more affluent peers academically every year."Tags: Books; Culture; Learning; 

Perception and the design of forms – Part 1: Shape - Formulate Information Design - If your form controls don't look like form controls then you'll confuse a lot of users.Tags: BlogPost; Usability; Design; Psychology; 

Firefox 4: An early walk-through of IndexedDB ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog - Mozilla announce IndexedDB support in the upcoming Firefox 4, a 'NoSQL style' alternative the the SQLite based Web Database API already implemented in WebKit (and in Firefox, for extensions).Tags: BlogPost; Firefox; HTML5; Database; 

JSON-LD - Linked Data Expression in JSON - This specification outlines a common JSON representation format for Linked Data that can be used to represent objects specified via RDFa, Microformats and Microdata.Tags: Microdata; Microformats; RDFa; RDF; Javascript; SemanticWeb;