Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 February Archive
X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2
X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2:
The competition to become the next markup language for the Web is heating up. This article takes a look at what’s cool and what’s uncool about the competing technologies.
Good news on FF3 and IE.next
Good news for DOM scripters: Firefox 3 is to support getElementsByClassName. Fingers crossed the other browsers follow suit soon, so we can stop using 20 lines of code where one will do.
Good news for everyone: Microsoft look as if they’re taking web standards seriously. First came the news that standards guru Molly E. Holzschlag has signed […]
Linux Genuine Advantage™
Did you wake up this morning and say “I wish someone would figure out a way to let me do less with my computer”?
Linux Genuine Advantage™ is an exciting and mandatory new way for you to place your computer under the remote control of an untrusted third party!
KHTML 3.5.6 is the most CSS3-compliant of all
The latest (3.5.6) release of the KHTML rendering engine passes all of the tests in the CSS selector testsuite - making the Konqueror 3.5.6 browser the most CSS3-compatible of all.
Also in the latest release is the implementation of text-overflow: ellipsis. It really is a shame that only a tiny proportion of web users have access to […]
Aside
Not only did I correctly predict Firefox 3.1, but one of my visions was that they implement the remaining CSS 3 selectors - which has just been announced. My uncanny powers are beginning to scare me.
[#] 0 Comments . More Asides.