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Disable preloading on HTML5 Videos

The preload attribute informs the browser whether or not the video data should begin downloading as soon as the video tag is loaded. It gets even better than that, you can chose how much preloading is done with the options auto, metadata, and none.

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HTML5 – Beyond the make up workshop in Darwin

For web developers and design enthusiasts this really is an exciting opportunity to learn from the very best (did you know that John practically started the path to responsive design). For managers this is a great chance for you to reward, train and develop your staff to learn more without the added burden of flights and accommodation.

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Responsive Web Design Resources

We built the website Responsive Web Design because there was a lack of centralised resources for web developers that wanted to learn more about Responsive Web Design.

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Facebook Influence Tools

This project took inspiration from Nerdi.net and takes the form of a series of helpful tools that have been categorised in an easy to search layout grid with thumbnails, titles and descriptions.

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PWC Darwin River Dam Graphs

Power and Water are moving from PDF and image based graphs to dynamic based graphs that can be viewed across a multitude of devices.

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HTML5 offline web apps & debugging the cache manifest

Cache Manifest is the perfect tool for taking your web application and making it available offline. The problem is it can be tough to debug what is happening when something goes wrong. Thankfully there’s a bit of code to help with you out with that.

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Developing iPad web applications

Creating an iPad App doesn’t necessarily mean you need a IOS developer. You can go a long way towards making a web application look, behave and function just as a native app from the app store using only HTML, CSS and Javascript.

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Weekly Update 4

I’m going to change up the timing on these weekly updates. First thing to do is make sure they come out weekly instead of once every month. Sorry about that. The second thing I’m going to do is send them out on Sunday evening so they are waiting in your inbox on Monday morning. This […]

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Responsive Design

Responsive design has taken the world by storm over the past 12 months as more and more devices are being released and browsers are adding more and more capabilities for CSS, and in particular the @media queries in CSS3.

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Weekly Web Update #3

This week we take a look at Typography Tools, Rethinking the CSS Grid, is HTML5 Web Apps really the answer and making beautiful shapes with CSS3