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In this screencast, we’ll take a quick look at a few new HTML5 features: the placeholder and autofocus tools, as well as the email and URL input types.

Today’s Basix video quick tip topic comes from a question on Twitter, concerning the use of custom fields in WordPress. Luckily, as you’ll find, attaching unique data to postings is as simple as assigning a value in the “Edit Post” page, and then referencing that information with the get_post_meta() method.

With all this talk about HTML5 not being complete until 2022, many people disregard it entirely – which is a big mistake. In fact, there are a handful of HTML5 features that we can use in all our projects right now! Simpler, cleaner code is always a good thing. In today’s video quick tip, I’ll show you a handful of options.

In today’s video quick tip, we’re going to build a working, though very basic, to-do list in just a minute or two. Thanks to HTML5’s local storage, we can make advanced browsers “remember” what we type, even after the browser is closed or is refreshed.

Those of you who follow us on Twitter might know that I’m currently working on an iPhone app for the tutorial sites. However, there’s just one problem: I have no Objective-C experience! Luckily, a service called Appcelerator allows us to build native desktop and mobile (iPhone in my case) apps using the web technologies that we already know, like JavaScript! Before we launch an in-depth two-part series detailing how to create and sell an iPhone app from scratch later this month, I thought I’d give you a basic overview of how it works.

JavaScript Templating is a neat idea: it allows you to easily convert JSON to HTML without having to parse it. At Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, they announced that they are starting to contribute to the jQuery team. One of their efforts is to provide a templating plugin. In this quick tip, I’ll show you how to use it!