Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 May Archive
Snails move quicker than the W3C
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From the most recent post on the W3C HTML Working Group blog; made three months ago.
Mozilla gets native video support
Mozilla’s Chris Double has announced on his blog that he’s implemented the (proposed) HTML5 <video> element in a build of Firefox (demo screencast). The element will natively support OGG Theora files.
While I think this is great news and has a lot of potential, I foresee one major obstacle to this becoming standard: proprietary codecs. If they […]
Using MooTools for animation timings
In my previous post, A MooTools Effects quickstart guide, I wrote a very simple and basic introduction to using the JavaScript framework to add animation effects to your website.
The popularity of the post took me by surprise, and showed me that there’s a demand for quick and easy tutorials on the subject; so I’ve decided to […]
The slow progress of Swift
The developer of Swift, the browser that was set to be the first native to Windows to use the WebKit rendering engine, has announced that development with WebKit is to be halted as the Windows port is unstable, and future versions will be based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine until WebKit stabilises, at which point Swift […]
Hyperlinks are fun
Thanks to del.icio.us I found 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers which has some really useful and interesting links, including a great presentation on designing for the grid by Khoi Vinh, whose blog led me to DesignByGrid.com, a collection of tutorials and resources.
A call for clarity in standards specifications
Over at 456BereaStreet, the ever-impressive Roger Johansson recently wrote an impassioned article about a perceived lack of support for semantic structure in HTML 5. He’s now had a chance to understand the issue more fully and has written a follow-up, Another Look at HTML 5, in which he explains his concerns in a more measured way.
All […]
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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