Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 April Archive
Teaching CSS hacks without context
Looking through the popular links on del.icio.us I found a page of tips for CSS: CSS Hacks & Issues.
Most of the tips are useful, if a little familiar by now, but their first one bugged me: Browser-Specific selectors. As you’ve probably inferred, it shows you how to use CSS hacks in order to provide browser-specific code. […]
Latest Gran Paradiso (Firefox 3) Alpha released
Mozilla have released the latest Alpha of Gran Paradiso, the developers preview of Firefox 3. This release contains no interface overhaul, but introduces a number of new features:
I took the 2007 Web Design survey
Over at A List Apart they’re asking people in the web industry to participate in their first annual web design survey, to try and build up a profile of who we are and what we do.
9 ways ColdFusion 8 will rule web development
9 ways ColdFusion 8 will rule web development. I like Coldfusion; I was forced into using it when I started my current job, and I found it very easy to pick up and get along with. However, as long as it remains proprietary and you have to pay upwards of £3,500 for the server edition, […]
CSS in emails, HTML vs XHTML, and more
I’m back from my holiday, with a quick look at some of the links I would have discussed in more detail had I been here…
Closed for the holidays
I’m off on holiday - back towards the end of April. I’ve written a new post for CSS3.info before I go: Kill IE6 to let CSS3 live.
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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