This new category in the .net Awards recognises the year's best online games, where timewasting is positively encouraged. Here we profile our shortlist compiled of your nominations. Let the game play begin!
Creative programmer Hakim El Hattab provides four top tips to help you make the most out of the canvas element. He also explains how the little monster that inspired our current 404 page was made possible
Addy Osmani recounts his experience of creating cross-browser polyfill visibly.js and provides plenty of top tips on how you can create your own HTML5 polyfills, while avoiding the headaches developers often run into when coding them for the first time
CSS-Tricks' Chris Coyier talks us through different CSS and jQuery solutions to create responsive and fluid width videos that maintain aspect ratio and work with all major video hosts, including YouTube and Vimeo
CSS-Tricks’ Chris Coyier, ‘lead hucklebucker’ at form builder Wufoo, recently bought up by SurveyMonkey, chats to Oliver Lindberg about how HTML5 will improve conversion rates and more
Web developer and creative programmer Hakim El Hattab shows us a new take on the ‘Flash page flip’ we all love to hate, using HTML5’s canvas and JavaScript. He explains how Fi built 20thingsilearned.com
Paper.js is an open source vector graphics JavaScript framework built on top of HTML5 canvas and developed by the incredible Jürg Lehni and Jonathan Puckey. Dr Woohoo, Claus Wahlers and Rasmus Blaesbjerg from HAUS create an example that explores Paper.js
We speak to leading developers about the newly released web animation tool, and discover concerns over HTML5 branding and absence of SVG and canvas, although Adobe stresses it’s still early days