Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 August Archive
Firefox (Gran Paradiso) 3a7: -moz-initial and forms
Recently I was chatting with Rapha Martins, and he mentioned a feature he’d like to see in CSS: a ‘default’ value for properties; that is, if you change the value of a property, a keyword that would change it back to the browser default rather than you having to specify that value again.
That has been proposed […]
The worst rounded corners technique ever
Reading this article listing 25 rounded corners techniques with CSS reminded me of perhaps the worst solution to the problem I ever read: rounded corners without images. 10 <div>’s and a whacking great chunk of CSS… and the funniest part is the claim that this is the future of rounded corners. What makes the laughter […]
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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