HTML5 Forms: Tips and Tricks

In the previous post we have seen most of the new input types and attributes in HTML5 forms.
In this article we will continue by having a look at other features available with the new forms.

New inputs and attributes in HTML5 forms

Working with forms is one the most time consuming tasks in the day of a web developer: validating user's input before an eventually useless request to the server or creating input widgets like date pickers or sliders can take much of your day.

Fortunately HTML5 comes to rescue us and to save much of our time.
New input types with built-in validation are (or will be) available making developer's life much easier.

In this article we will have a look at the new inputs together with new attributes that can be applied to most of them.

Pros and cons of CSS3

CSS3 is an extension of CSS 2.1: it adds a lot of features to make life easier for web designers and developers.
Nowadays it is not uncommon to make heavy use of Flash, Javascript and lots of images and tricks to make web pages look awesome.
CSS3's goal is to provide the tools to reach the same goal but with a unique and consistent language.
In this article we will go through the pros and cons of CSS3 and we will conclude with some consideration about the current situation.

SASS-Part 2: Inheritance, Functions and Scripting

In the previous post we have seen the main features of SASS: nesting, variables and mix-ins.
This time we will instead have a look at inheritance, functions and scripting.
We will also see how to implement a simple function in SASS.