Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 June Archive
Safari 3 available on Windows
In a move which has taken me pleasantly by surprise, Apple have announced that Safari 3 will be available on Windows. You can download a Public Beta here, and media plugins for Windows are available here. I’ll play with it a little later.
Update: After ten minutes play, my initial thoughts are that, on the negative side, […]
What I saw at @media
So @media 2007 is over and, after a little breather, here’s a short breakdown of what I saw, in chronological order, along with links to presentations where possible.
There were lots of great, inspiring ideas, which should spin out into a few more posts in the near future.
@media, CSS 3, and browser news
I’ve been at @media Europe 2007 today, watching some top-notch presentations about the current and future state of the web. I think Dan Cederholm’s Interface Design Juggling was the pick of the bunch, although it was a close-run thing.
Six hour-long sessions, interspersed with a couple of work-related emergencies, then home for dinner and more work, leaves […]
Five slideshow presentations I wish I’d seen
I’m off to @media Europe this week, and looking forward to hearing presentations from some of the best in the business.
Of course there are many excellent events that take place worldwide that I can’t attend, and many presentations I’d love to see. Below are five links to slideshows from events that have taken place this year, […]
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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