Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 May Archive
New Labour website launches
Just a day after the Prime Minister announces he’s to step down in June, triggering a leadership contest, the Labour party launches their redesigned website.
The Guardian gets a modern makeover
I’m very impressed by the redesign of The Guardian; they’ve managed to pull off the complicated feat of having a lot of information and not losing that information in a morass of boxes and links.
The design, based on a six-column grid, actually reminds me quite a lot of The Onion, although I think it’s even less […]
Andy Budd on the future of CSS
I conducted a Q&A about the future of CSS with speaker/author/developer/etc Andy Budd, which you can read on CSS3.info now.
IE8: Microsoft should carry the legacy burden
Remember the bad old days of “This site is best viewed with Browser X at Resolution Y”, before the concerted push towards web standards? Looks like they could be on their way back.
IE group program manager, Chris Wilson, has said that a “compatible with IE 8.0” scheme may be necessary in order for their next browser […]
A MooTools Effects quickstart guide
MooTools is a neat little JavaScript framework which grew out of the Moo.fx library. It’s a quick and easy way to add dynamism to your site, from AJAX to animation (that doesn’t seem much alphabetically, I know).
Despite having extensive documentation, however, I felt it was lacking a ‘quickstart’ tutorial - so I decided to write one. […]
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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