I feel like this blog is getting away from what I originally intended its primary content to be - my spiritual walk in like. But you know what oh wells at least I am posting something new :).
So I decided I wanted to try and be one of the people on the leading edge of HTML 5 so it can be one less thing in the future that I am trying to play catch up with. True, full HTML 5 support won’t be out until sometime in the 2020s (I am pretty sure I read that somewhere but of course when I go to search for the year I can’t find it ><) but might as well start now since Firefox 3.5 is now supporting HTML 5. And thanks to the folks at Smashing Magazine I can get a great running start on my HTML 5 learnin’ by following their “HTML 5 Layout from Scratch” tutorial.
How does Pixelmator fit in to this you ask (and if you didn’t let’s just pretend you did ;))? Well unsatisfied to learn and tinker with only HTML 5, I will be doing the design work in Pixelmator, a really nice Mac graphics program that I just bought and have so far enjoyed using. It’s true that doing the design end would be easier in Photoshop, but unfortunately I am no longer privy to Adobe’s image editing juggernaut (write or tweet me if you want to know the story). But then again if I used Photoshop I wouldn’t get to share even more new stuff about my experiences with Pixelmator.
I will be doing my testing/designing at this site: hangerbay.fxrdesign.com and trying to keep you up do date here at CToW about it’s progress.
So far what I have learned from starting to code my uber simple HTML 5 page is:
- Though the SM tutorial shows that <meta charset=”utf-8″ /> is the tag to use for declaring your character set, the w3c validator errors out on it. Solution: use the the standard meta tag declaration <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″>. Yes its more to remember but it validates like soft butter…err something like that.
- Panic’s Coda doesn’t have code prompts for the semantic HTML 5 tags…let’s get with in Panic I have a 2020 deadline to meet
