How to make PDF file downloadable in HTML link?

This is a common issue but few people know there’s a simple HTML 5 solution: Where newfilename is the suggested filename for the user to save the file. Or it will default to the filename on the serverside if you leave it empty, like this: Compatibility: I tested this on Firefox 21 and Iron, both worked fine. … Read more

Section vs Article HTML5

In the W3 wiki page about structuring HTML5, it says: <section>: Used to either group different articles into different purposes or subjects, or to define the different sections of a single article. And then displays an image that I cleaned up: It also describes how to use the <article> tag (from same W3 link above): <article> is related to <section>, but is … Read more

How to mark-up phone numbers?

The tel: scheme was used in the late 1990s and documented in early 2000 with RFC 2806 (which was obsoleted by the more-thorough RFC 3966 in 2004) and continues to be improved. Supporting tel: on the iPhone was not an arbitrary decision. callto:, while supported by Skype, is not a standard and should be avoided unless specifically targeting Skype users. Me? I’d just start including properly-formed tel: URIs on your … Read more

Markdown vs markup – are they related?

Markup is a generic term for a language that describes a document’s formatting Markdown is a specific markup library: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/These days the term is more commonly used to refer to markup languages that mimic the style of the library. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown