Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 June Archive
iPhone love is rather distasteful
I find all the fanboy attention being paid to the iPhone more than a little embarrassing. I mean, certainly it looks nice; but it’s just an object. A thing. Not something to fawn over to the degree we’ve seen today.
Bloglines moves backwards with Ajax
I’ve used Bloglines for a long time to organise the many (too many?) feeds I read daily. I’ve always been happy with it, resisting the charms of new kids on the block such as Google Reader, but recently there’ve been some changes I find have taken the service a few steps backwards.
IE Alternatives to Firebug
Firefox is very likely the browser of choice for many web developers, and with one very good reason: Firebug, which is, IMHO, hands-down the most important web development tool around. Seriously, if you haven’t tried Firebug, you’re probably wasting a lot of development time.
It’s so good, Yahoo! have created a full-time position just to develop it. […]
border-radius: Safari vs Mozilla
With the release of Safari 3, there are now two browsers with (browser-specific) implementations of border-radius; unfortunately, the two implementations are different. The problem is that there is an unresolved ambiguity in the CSS 3 working draft.
Do Apple want a browser duopoly?
Here’s an interesting interpretation of Steve Jobs’ recent keynote speech, which certainly looks as if Apple want to take browser market share from independent browser makers rather than Microsoft.
If that interpretation’s correct, it’s sad that they think the internet would be better served by a duopoly than by giving users choice. But to be honest, I […]
HTML 5 changelist released
I was halfway through writing a long post about the fact that the W3C’s HTML Working Group have released a document listing the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 when I clicked a button I shouldn’t have clicked and lost the lot. Why doesn’t Wordpress have automatic saving of drafts like Gmail does? Anyway, […]
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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