Using HTML5 tags without JavaScript in IE

HTML5 is all the rage at the moment. All the cool kids are doing it.
Dear old IE, however, doesn’t allow you to use the new tags, such as <article>, <nav> etc in your CSS.
There is the popular ‘HTML5Shiv’ which basically does the following in JavaScript:
document.createElement(”article”);
document.createElement(”nav”);
But what if you have to make your sites work 100% [...]

Posted at 1pm on 8/14/10 | no comments; | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

Embedding videos a different way

I’m starting a new project for a client over the coming weeks and one of the things I want to do during the project is make some improvements to the templates we use as the basis for most of our work.
One of the things that I really wanted to change is the way we deal [...]

Posted at 3pm on 6/12/10 | 2 comments | Filed Under: CSS | read on

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