Jul
14
I jump into the controversy about the future of the .NET Framework and HTML5+JavaScript.
Jun
20
Web Standards Update provides HTML5 & CSS3 support to Visual Studio 2010 SP1. It brings VS 2010 Intellisense & validation as close to W3C specification as possible in a Visual Studio extension. The most notable features are:
- HTML5 – Video, Audio, Input Type, Drag & Drop, WAI-ARIA, Microdata, Schema.org
- Browser API – GeoLocation & Local Storage
- CSS3 – 2D Transforms, 3D Transforms, Animations, Background & Borders, Basic Box Model, Basic UI, Behavior, Color, Flexible Box Layout, Fonts, Paged Media, Hyperlink Presentation, Line, Lists, Marquee, Media Queries, Multi Column, Namespaces, Presentation Levels, Ruby, Selectors, Speech, Syntax, Template Layout, Text & Transitions. It also supports vendor specific prefixes like –ms, -webkit & -moz.
Note that this isn’t an official Microsoft product release. It was created by Microsoft employees on the Web Platform and Tools team in their spare time.
Web Standards Update for VS 2010
Announcement, Features and Details
Mar
10
Microsoft believes that HTML5 and related technologies, in conjunction with faster and faster browsers, finally give web developers the tools they need to create experiences that are just as vivid, interactive and high-fidelity as what you have come to expect from native applications, but without the need for plug-ins.
So Microsoft has launched an HTML5 Web Developer Competition. Push HTML5 to its limits and compete for over $40,000 in prizes. The Grand Prize winner will receive $9,000 in cash and a fully-loaded trip with a Golden Ticket to the Future of Web Apps Conference in Las Vegas on June 27th.
Aug
31
Html Agility Pack (HAP) is an open-source, agile, HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT. This .NET code library enables you to parse “out of the web” HTML files. The parser is very tolerant with “real world” malformed HTML. The object model is very similar to the model found in System.Xml, but for HTML documents (or streams).
Html Agility Pack now supports Linq-to-Objects (via a LINQ-to-Xml interface). Sample applications include:
- Page fixing or generation. You can fix a page the way you want, modify the DOM, add nodes, copy nodes, etc.
- Web scanners. You can easily get to img/src or a/hrefs with XPATH queries.
- Web scrapers. You can easily scrape any existing web page into an RSS feed for example, with just an XSLT file serving as the binding.