Posts tagged HTML5
Learn HTML5 before you learn Rails
"You cannot be a Ruby on Rails developer if you don't know HTML and CSS." I realized that 30 minutes before I was supposed to teach someone Ruby on Rails yesterday. Even if she is a computer science graduate, if her knowledge of HTML and CSS is not good enough then it becomes an exercise in futility to teach Ruby on Rails or even Unix. So on my way, I tried to recall links to resources for HTML5 and CSS3. Jsfiddle helped me out to teach basics of HTML5, CSS and jQuery! Yes, I taught DOM manipulation and how to "google fu." Those were not necessary but I wanted her to understand classes, ID's and how jQuery works. Within one hour and 30 minutes, I also explained the importance of using CSS frameworks and grid design. Most designers are fixated with the idea of designing without a framework/ grid in mind and it is bad for us all.
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Happy Holidays, everyone. I just like to share something which isn't new to you all but may be new to some who aren't frontend "monkeys" or "ninjas" and I don't fall in any of those categories but still credible to write about what I've learned. I'm new to HTML5 but I've been using HTML5 a lot in practically all of my Rails 3 applications. I do not believe that I need to support Internet Explorer 6. It's almost 2011 and I think it's just about time that we stop supporting version 6. It would not benefit you financially if you chose to do so. That's a fact.
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