Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 March Archive
Firefox 3: the Google browser?
Mozilla have announced that Firefox 3 is to provide support for using web applications offline - despite, as developer Mark Finkle admits, most users not needing it.
The development of offline apps is awarded a higher priority than some other features I would have thought more desirable - fuller SVG support, for example - so why the […]
New Theme - Under Construction
This design is a work in progress, but I was forced to bring it into action early as the previous theme was annoying me! Apologies to visitors using IE6, as I haven’t had the chance to make it fully compatible yet; mind you, you really should upgrade!
Chris Wilson talks Internet Explorer
An interesting chat with IE veteran Chris Wilson (downloadable MP3 or WMA).
IE should serve as an object lesson in monopolies; when it was competing with Netscape it was innovative and forward-thinking. When Netscape threw in the towel, Microsoft stopped development and the browser stagnated and caused many of the problems we have today. Since the rise […]
HTML 5 in 2010?
The W3C have announced that they have relaunched activity on HTML:
After the publication of HTML 4… W3C set forth to turn HTML into an XML-based format, called XHTML, due to the benefits of XML formats. The first full XHTML Recommendation was issued in early 2000. But due to the significant legacy of Web content that is […]
No huge SVG leaps in Firefox 3
A little while ago I claimed that SVG looks set to be the future of web graphics, after Opera’s announcement that SVG would be allowed as a value in the background-image declaration.
Unfortunately Firefox won’t be doing the same with their next release; indeed, it seems that resources are limited at Mozilla;
With minimal resources available for SVG development, […]
The capitalized text bug in Safari
A tiny but infuriating bug in current versions of Safari/Webkit is the one which treats any character after an apostrophe (or other special character) as the beginning of a new sentence. Not a problem that’s going to crop up many times, except when you use the text-transform declaration to capitalize a sentence.
Take this example:
It’s Apple’s Problem
Safari/Webkit users should […]
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.
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