Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 February Archive
Who uses Camino?
Camino is a browser for OS X which uses Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine in OS X’s Cocoa API. The advantage for Mac users is that it’s a little faster than Firefox, and it integrates better with the OS X desktop environment.
But I just can’t understand why anyone would use it.
HTML Tags illustrated
HTML Tags illustrated
A collection of photographs using visual puns to illustrate HTML tags. Clever idea.
Displaying licensing information for images
Over at the Wired blog they’re pondering on the best way to provide licensing information on images; the author suggests a new attribute for img, something like lic=”license-abbr”. I think the main problem with this is that it doesn’t provide any information about what that license is, or its terms.
The Microformats solution is rel-license; basically, putting […]
The importance of making backups
I’m working on a new theme for the site, and accidentally overwrote the stylesheet on this one, forcing me to revert back to the only saved version I have - an old, unfinished version. Pardon the way the site looks for a few days.
One or two CSS properties I hardly use
15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should).
Most of these aren’t implemented in the IE browsers (do I even need to point that out?), many of them aren’t implemented in at least one of the other popular browsers, some of them are print-only.
Of the few cross-browser screen properties, probably the only one that I don’t […]
Navigation buttons in Firefox
Something that’s been bugging me for a while, that I’d forgotten to write about; why does Firefox 2 on Windows and Linux have the classic Back and Forward buttons:
… while Firefox 2 on OS X has the crappy buttons?
If I’m not mistaken, FF2 beta releases on Windows had the crappy buttons, but were switched to the classic […]
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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