Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 April Archive
CSS a little too easy…
CSSeasy.com’s Q&A says:
Q: Why do I need this site?
A: ‘Cause you don’t want to read CSS books of 500+ pages…
I’d suggest that you’d learn a lot more reading a book than you would just copying someone else’s templates. Plus, I don’t think there are many CSS books of 500+ pages.
Web standards at Microsoft
It sounds like Microsoft are taking web standards seriously. This is really good news for everyone; it’s so important to have the market leader actually lead. IE7 was a fudge that ran to catch up with everyone else, but I’m hopeful that IE8 (or even IE7.5?) will begin to innovate as well.
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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