Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 February Archive
IE7 and @import media types
The more I use IE7, the more I hate it. Yes, it’s more standards-compliant and feature-rich than IE6; but if the best you can say about your browser is that it’s better than IE6, you’re not starting from a strong position. IE7 is better than IE6 as receiving ten smacks in the head is better […]
The importance of DOCTYPE
John’s Essential Guide to CSS is a ‘pocket guide’ to the language. There are many out there, but I decided to link to this one because of it’s very first link: Fix Your Site with the Right DOCTYPE.
I cannot stress enough the importance of working to a valid DOCTYPE; it’s good for the web, and it’s […]
Same languages, different languages
How many great sites and interesting articles are we missing out on because we don’t read their language?
I was thinking about this as I read the blog of Rafael Oliveira, a web designer from São Paolo. I’m fortunate enough to be able to read Portuguese, but most people aren’t; that means that, unless his posts are […]
Five books that have helped me develop
I made my first forays into web development back in 1998, with my own Geocities homepage (now sadly defunct). It was after I developed my first ‘proper’ website (an unoffical guide to the FIFA Club World Championship 2000; please don’t laugh, this was eight years ago…) that I decided I wanted to be a professional developer.
I’m […]
Designing SVG with Inkscape
SVG looks set to be the future of web graphics - the distant future, perhaps, as it’s not yet supported by IE without a plugin. Opera’s Chief Web Opener, David Storey, announced on his blog recently that future builds of Opera will support SVG on the CSS background-image declaration. This is very good news, and […]
Tracking down :default and command
The next milestone build of my favourite browser, Firefox, has been released today. Codenamed Gran Paradiso, the biggest changes have been made to the graphics layer, which is now Cairo. I’ve played around with it a little today, and it seems significantly faster at painting a page than its predecessor.
I took a look at the Mozilla […]
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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