Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 July Archive
SVG in background-image
If adopted widely, the use of SVG in <img /> and background-image could be responsible for some big changes in website design.
Take a look at this example of images in SVG (you’ll need an SVG-capable browser), which displays four photos at random positions and sizes on the page. Images could be pulled at random from Flickr […]
Safari/WebKit confusion
KHTML and WebKit look set to unfork, and WebKit have recently announced a set of project goals (and non-goals), which include the statement:
WebKit is an engine, not a browser.
Which does beg the question: why is their blog called Surfin’ Safari, and prominently feature the Safari logo?
CSS 2.1 Closer To Full Recommendation Status
The W3C’s announcement that CSS2.1 has moved to ‘Candidate Recommendation’ status has been met with a muted response from the community - presumably because most people think they’re using it already.
As it’s inching closer to becoming a full recommendation, there are no new features introduced; a few, however, are in danger of being dropped when the […]
Font Aliasing: Managing Expectations
Last week, we delivered some designs to a client who had asked us to refresh the content areas of their website. We worked hard on getting the typography clearer & more readable, and when they saw the printed designs they declared themselves ‘thrilled’ and couldn’t wait to see the styles applied to the website.
Today we went […]
Exploring The Web Developer Toolbar
If you use Firefox and Chris Pedrick’s invaluable Web Developer extension, this should be very useful to you: 10 Things You May Not Know About the Web Developer Toolbar. I hadn’t seen the ‘View Color Information’ option before; it’s amazing!
Flock 0.9: Powerful, Complex, Not For Me
After what seems like an eternity, the latest version of the Flock browser has been released. It features a new user interface, and integration with a wider number of media services, YouTube being a notable example, as well as a new feature called My World, which displays your feeds, news and media on one page.
I think […]
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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