Mathias Bynens

Mathias Bynens?!

O hai! I’m a freelance front-end web developer from Dendermonde, Belgium, working under the name of Qiwi. I enjoy coding websites using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript / jQuery and QMS. Read more…

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The id attribute just got more classy in HTML5

One of the more subtle yet awesome changes that HTML5 brings, applies to the id attribute. I already tweeted about this a few months ago, but I think this is interesting enough to write about in more than 140 characters.

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The XML serialization of HTML5, aka ‘XHTML5’

A while ago, I was wondering how exactly one triggers HTML5’s XML mode — let’s call it XHTML5 from now on. You know, just out of curiosity. I’ll always prefer HTML over XHTML because it’s much less verbose and I like to keep things simple.

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Thoughts on Safari Reader’s generated HTML

Every time you click that shiny little Reader button, Safari generates an HTML document and displays it as an overlay to the original document. Let’s have a look at the HTML and CSS used in this process, and find out how we can mess with it.

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