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Look up HTML5 features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are

As promised in how to – WordPress Category Extra Fields to explain how to add extra fields to WordPress Custom taxonomies I’m posting this after getting a few requests and question about it.

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jVectorMap is a jQuery plugin employed to show vector maps and visualize data on HTML pages. It uses SVG in all modern browsers like Firefox 3 or 4, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE9, while legacy support for older versions of IE from 6 to 8 is provided with VML. Using jVectorMap is pretty simple as for any other jQuery plugin.

jQuery HTML5 Uploader is a lightweight jQuery plugin that lets you to quickly add an upload system a-la-Gmail into your web app. You only need to create a dropbox element (i.e. a div) and jQuery HTML5 Uploader will do the rest. Then you can drag & drop one or more files on the element and the files will be uploaded. It also works with the multiple input file element. The upload function is divided into two asynchronous operations: client side, the file is loaded in the browser memory with a FileReader object. Useful if you want, for example, to show the image preview while uploading a picture. The server side operation consists in sending the binary file string to the postUrl (see settings).

Hurl makes HTTP requests. Enter a URL, set some headers, view the response, then share it with others. Perfect for demoing and debugging APIs.

Like webfonts, responsive design wasn’t something you heard much about until CSS3 specs started making it into popular browsers. Now, it’s the cool thing to do, and for good reason — it means one site to maintain for all devices. But it’s also a really challenging approach to web design. In this article, we look at 10 tools that’ll help you handle the challenge.

La question revient régulièrement. Avec Symfony2 qui vient tout juste d’arriver et symfony 1 à qui il reste seulement un an de support officiel, les projets Web qui se montent en cette fin d’année 2011 ne savent pas sur quel pied danser. Voici un point sur la situation d’un des frameworks PHP5 les plus importants.

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