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Troy Whiteley Development Blog
Designer Tweet
Martin Hodgson
Cartagen: Native HTML 5 maps using canvas
Cartgen is a vector-based, client-side framework that renders maps in HTML 5 combining the canvas element and javascript. Maps are styled with GSS, an accessible specification based in CSS and JSON. You can read more about Cartagen in their Wiki.
Ian Hickson discusses HTML 5
HTML 5 editor Ian Hickson talks about the development process, his favorite features, the most controversial points and all things HTML 5 in an interview with Tech Republic.
Restructuring HTML5
Manu Sporny writes a proposal for a community driven approach to work on the HTML 5 specification.
HTML5 Canvas Experiment
The guys at 9elements created a stunning little experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen
. You can see it in action or read more about it in their blog.
Wordpress themes using HTML 5
If you’re a Wordpress user, you can start playing around with HTML 5 using one of this themes:
- Brave New World, by Karl Dawson.
- H5, by Digging into Wordpress.
- Wordpress Basis, by WPEngineer.
- Wordpress Naked, by J. P. McGarrity.
- FreeDream, by Caroline Monmerqué.
- Starkers HTML5, by Nathan Staines
Do you know any other Wordpress themes using HTML 5? Let me know and I’ll keep updating the list!
The HTML 5 Experiments
Bruce Lawson, open web standards evangelist
from Opera, talks at O’Reilly’s OSCON 2009 conference about HTML 5: how it works in the real world and what works and what doesn’t in current browsers.



