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A collection of 4 posts

Web Advent

I wrote a blog post for Web Advent [http://webadvent.org/2012] this year! It’s about making better forms for mobile users [http://webadvent.org/2012/better-forms-for-mobile-users-by-james-socol]. Web Advent is the latest incarnation of PHP Advent. It’s always a great collection of writing and writers. Check it out

The Future of TodaysMeet

This is the second half of a two-part post. Start with part 1 [https://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/the-problem-with-todaysmeet-550/]. TodaysMeet [http://todaysmeet.com/] is an interesting challenge because it has components that are absolutely real-time and should be built like a messaging system, not a CMS, and parts that aren’t real-time

Excitement about HTML5: Forms

I shouldn’t imply that I don’t like HTML5 [https://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/reservations-about-html5-271/]. I don’t like certain parts of it—the redundant new elements that add no functionality and are of little use except to A List Apart [http://www.alistapart.com/]. But other parts of the spec

Reservations about HTML5

A day or so ago, Adrian Bateman [http://adrianba.net/], from Microsoft’s IE team [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx], posted his team’s thoughts on the current draft [http://bit.ly/1TNzYU] of the HTML5 spec [http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html]. Reading it is