The jQuery validation plugin is a powerful plugin which makes validating HTML forms fun for both developers and end users. While it stays a framework, almost everything about it is customizable!

Let's illustrate this with an example... Out of the box, when a required field is not filled in, the message "This field is required" is printed next to the field.

Last week, both of us and some other colleagues had the opportunity to attend a 2 day workshop by Mathias Bynens about HTML5. Some had already been experimenting with it, others had less experience.

We both think the workshop was really inspiring :) Kudos to @mathias.

We had to create an application which allowed users to invite their friends to participate on a contest. First, we had a look at the Facebook Multiple Friend selector. This Facebook component offers a friends list in the well known Facebook look and feel and sends 'application invites' to the friends you select, but it was not very useful for us because after the invites are sent, the url which we specified in the 'fb:req-choice'

The HTML5 test score is only an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. It does not try to test all of the new features offered by HTML5, nor does it try to test the functionality of each feature it does detect.

So, there’s been quite a buzz about HTML5 lately. New semantic elements, native audio and video tags, the canvas element, etc. It’s all good.

However, some people seem to have a hard time distinguishing between HTML5 and CSS3, between HTML5 and jQuery and between HTML5 and Flash.

HTML5 is not Flash

It seems that HTML5 is becoming the generic term for "cool stuff you can do on the Internet".

In some projects you may want to allow the customer to use the block interface. The block interface is a very difficult concept to understand for non-drupal users. At nascom we tried to make blocks as useable as possible by building the small less blocks module. Less blocks is a simple module which allows you to disable blocks from the Drupal block list.

 

 

The drupal team is going to Copenhagen next week. We did not make it in San Fransisco so have some Drupalcon time to catch up. With the session schedule programmed in our mobile devices we are ready to hit the conference.

We are strategically staying near the venue and Foobar. Drupal is still Free as in Beer, right?

See you there!

We are proud to be launching our new playground. Naslabs is a place where Nascom's developers will share whatever information they deem interesting, albeit technology related.

I'm sure we'll be seeing more of you soon.