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Don't get hung up on HTML and CSS Validation

Jeffrey Way writes in his article, "But it Doesn’t Validate", for Nettuts+:

"When validating, your primary focus should be on determining where you’ve made mistakes. Validation isn’t a game, and, while it might be fun to test your skills to determine how high you can get your score, always keep in mind: it doesn’t matter. And never, ever, ever compromise the use of the latest doctype, CSS3 techniques and selectors for the sake of validation."

Validators are great tools that help developers find mistakes in their code. However, they are just tools. These tools will report errors for not only mistakes but also cutting edge techniques that were implemented purposely by an experienced developer. These advanced techniques (e.g. CSS3, HTML5 in Chrome or Safari) when done as enhancements to the user experience instead of requirements for it (i.e. Progressive Enhancement) are 100% valid.

Akeem Williams
Dec 02, 2010
css, HTML
Where does TV meet the Web?

Google answered that question today at Day 2 of Google I/O, and the answer is at Google TV.  But let's not get ahead of ourselves...  They spent the first half of the keynote building up suspense talking about the Android momentum:

  • 21 OEMs
  • 48 Countries
  • 65 Devices
  • 100,000 Daily activation run rate
  • 1 billion miles traveled in GPS navgation
  • 50,000 Applications
  • 180,00 Developers

They announced the next release of Android 2.2 called Froyo, which has 5 Focus Areas:

  1. Speed: Just-in-time (JIT) compilation
  2. Enterprise: Exchange friendly
  3. Services: Application Data Backup API, Cloud-to-Device Messaging API, Tethering & Portable Hotspot
  4. Browser - 2x-3x javascript performance (The V8 engine from Chrome but ported for Android), fastest mobile browser, voice recognition for: searching, translations, support for flash
  5. Market - Update All feature, Automatic updating, and more

Then, they surprised all us by giving all five thousand attendees Sprint HTC EVO 4G Phones!

The second half of the keynote focused on the announcement of Google TV (Tagline: TV meets Web.  Web Meets TV).  The Google TV interface is extraordinary.  Do you ever search the web for when/what channel a show is on because the guide on your TV is too overwhelming?  Google TV merges this into one easy step on your TV using a bluetooth keyboard.   Google TV will integrate with DVR, Netflix, Amazon, and others.  The TV based browser is slightly transparent so that you can see the TV shows behind the browser as well.  Google TV has increased the number of channels on your TV from hundreds to millions by integrating all of the video on the web as a TV option for the common TV viewer.

The hardware includes a Google TV box that connects via HDMI to your current set top box.  It comes with a keyboard and mouse to control the Google TV device.  If paired, the Android phone with google voice search can also integrate so that you would not have to use the keyboard or mouse.  They're going to publish the protocol so that developers can create their own applications and hardware for Google TV as well.

Again, the entire keynote will be posted on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers if you'd like to watch.

-Submitted by Chris Apolzon and Laurie Richards

Laurie Richards
May 20, 2010
Android, Development, Google, HTML, Technology, TV, Web 2.0
I/O: Input/Output or Innovation in the Open?

The answer is...  Both!  Google I/O got its name from both a developers roots (Input/Output) as well as developers future, (Innovation in the Open).  They kicked off their third annual developers conference today and San Francisco is currently crawling with more than five thousand developers (including two from OHO Interactive) anxious to hear whatever big news it is that is almost always released at their conferences (stay tuned to our blog, it sounds like it'll be announced during tomorrow's keynote at 9AM PDT).

The conference can already be seen to have an incredibly strong focus on HTML 5, as well as the open web and the mobile web.  Some of the HTML 5 examples demonstrated, particularly the offline mugtug demo, were amazing.  Can you imagine running an entire web application locally from the cache?  With HTML 5 it'll be possible. 

In addition to HTML 5, Open video is also here!  Today Google, and their partners, announced the webm project, an open web media project.  The VP8 codec is also now open source and royalty free.  Youtube is supporting both initiatives, and is working to convert all of their videos.  Nightly builds of Mozilla and Opera are available now to start developing against webm/VP8 to try out the next big thing in video on the web.

Time Magazine was also on hand to announce the Sports Illustrated HTML 5 web application.  With this announcement, we can see that HTML 5 will usher in unique and intuitive experiences bridging the tech-savvy web with the fast-moving journalism space.

Perhaps the most exciting news of the morning was that Google wave is now open to ALL!  Sign up for your account today at wave.google.com.  They've also added lots of new features and usability improvements. My favorite new feature is email notifications of waves so that you don't have to have yet another application, tab, etc open on your phone or browser.  Embedding waves inside other applications (i.e. in salesforce "chatter") will also be more common in the coming months.

The entire keynote was streamed live on You Tube, and will soon be available on demand if you’d like to watch it.

-Submitted by Chris Apolzon and Laurie Richards

Laurie Richards
May 19, 2010
Development, Google, HTML, Web 2.0
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