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Annotated list of elements in HTML5, ranging from the classic <p> to <base>, <time>, etc.

"With an advertising world keen to use every inch of a medium for brand or product experience, it is becoming increasingly popular to design websites with full-browser backgrounds. Using CSS, this can be achieved quite easily. Just drop a huge background image in a page with one line of code"

"Alejandra Laviada is having a breakthrough. Literally. These days, when the 29-year-old photographer goes to her makeshift studio in one of the run-down abandoned office buildings that fill Mexico City’s historic center, she brings her camera, her tripod, and a large hammer. She takes a swing at a wall. And then she takes her shot."

text-rendering css property that seems to mostly work just in safari.

"A skeuomorph or skeuomorphism (Greek: skeuos—vessel or tool, morphe—shape)[1] is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original." Nice find, Carl.

In this article we’ll give you a look behind the scenes of OpenType substitution features — a general rather than comprehensive overview as the subject is simply too vast. We’ll start casually and work our way to more complex features and ideas. All examples that we will discuss should be considered starting points, just to pique your interest. Read on and find out that it’s really not difficult!

Great real world example that different audiences interpret things differently.

Not sure if this was the 7:00pm show, or the 9:00pm, which I attended.

"Whatever it's background, the tape contains no less than 547 of what it calls “Typical American Expressions”, each with an explanation and an example...read by this rather humorless and mechanical sounding announcer."

Moriah's new bike.

Customizing the appearance of browser-based html5 video players.

Straightforward method to serve HTML5 and automatically fall back to flash if necessary, uses no javascript.

Brief summary of HTML through the years.

A film on the purpose and techniques of calligraphy. Presented and produced by Hallmark. Filmed at Hallmark cards during a visit by Mr. Zapf. Production manager Noel Gordon. Script outline Peter Seymour. Script editor Richard Rhodes. Camera Direction Frank Robinson. Associate cameraman Heinz Burger. Idea and direction Harald Peter.

"Premiéra is a book typeface specifically designed to work in small sizes. It is available in 3 weights: the ‘Book’ for main text demands and two styles (Bold and Italic) to create different kind of emphasis. A strong x-height and short ascender/descender make this very legible and elegant typeface very suitable for use in books and newspapers. The idea for Premiéra comes from a demand on developing a typeface that works very well in small prints. Its main features, straight lines and sharp forms, developed through a process of testing readability in very small print sizes. The result is a typeface with a strong personality whether you read it in small or in bigger size."

"On April 11th 2002, 500 volunteers were called in order to form a line to move a sand dune situated in the surroundings of the city of Lima. This human comb progressed pushing forward a certain quantity of sand with shovels in order to move the dune from its original position. The actual displacement was of an infinitesimal proportion, but not its metaphorical resonance. "