An increasing amount of browsers are beginning to support more HTML5 attributes. It’s wise to start learning the basics behind the next version of HTML, so as not to get left behind.

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At least that’s the way it was for me .

When I was first hearing about JSON around the office I shied away form learning anything about it. At the time I was still getting accustomed to the flow of jQuery and had the impression that learning JSON would be along the same lines having to learn a new set of coding rules to implement it. Turns out though that if you have some computer science under your belt (or just understand what objects are in terms of programming) and basic javascript knowledge, you can write JSON.

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I just watched this screencast from jqueryforedesigners.com and it had so many little nuggets that I wanted to share it with you. For instance, I did not realize that if you were trying to get the margin (or padding or anything that is a number) of an element, and it returns a string like “20px”, you can strip the “px” by using .parseFloat(). Wow where has this been all my life. Hope you find this helpful as well.

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