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Web Advent

I wrote a blog post for Web Advent this year! It’s about making better forms for mobile users. Web Advent is the latest incarnation of PHP Advent. It’s always a great collection of writing and writers. Check it out this month!

James Socol Dec 5, 2012 • 1 min read
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The Future of TodaysMeet

This is the second half of a two-part post. Start with part 1. TodaysMeet 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 at all, and can totally be built

James Socol Jan 30, 2011 • 3 min read
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Excitement about HTML5: Forms

I shouldn’t imply that I don’t like HTML5. 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. But other parts of the spec are very exciting. Forms, in particular, are getting

James Socol Aug 22, 2009 • 2 min read
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Reservations about HTML5

A day or so ago, Adrian Bateman, from Microsoft’s IE team, posted his team’s thoughts on the current draft of the HTML5 spec. Reading it is brutal. Bateman takes issue with basically everything added since HTML4. He goes through and individually criticizes many of the new tags, sometimes

James Socol Aug 8, 2009 • 5 min read
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