Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 January Archive
Under heavy development
This is my new blog about web technologies and development - so new, in fact, that I haven’t thought of a decent name, and I’m using a default template.
Over the coming weeks I aim to develop my own style and post more here, so please excuse me if things are a little rough for a while…
CSS3 in future Opera builds
David Storey, Chief Web Opener at Opera, has announced on his blog that the latest internal builds of the Opera browser have advanced CSS3 selectors support.
Some of the new selectors are already enabled in the builds, while others have been implemented but not yet enabled due to technical reasons. All are hoped to be available in […]
Aside
It was announced on the HTML Working Group mailing list this morning that the font element will be absent from the next draft of the HTML5 specification. The inclusion of font in the spec was controversial, as many (including myself) thought it was a purely decorative element that had no place in semantic code.
Of course, browsers will still have to support the element because of the many legacy sites on the web; but as of now any software that generates mark-up should use the style attribute instead. It’s a small increment better.
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