Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 October Archive
Mozilla Prism: Am I missing something?
Although they didn’t create the concept, Mozilla popularised tabbed browsing with the release of Firefox. Tabbed browsing is, of course, a very good thing; the old IE model of having a separate window for every instance of a site you open became unmanageable when computers got more powerful and websites no longer slowed down the […]
Bringing out the GIMP
As an Ubuntu user at home, I don’t have the option of installing imaging software such as Photoshop. Luckily, the best free and open-source alternative, GIMP, has just released a new version - and it’s fantastic.
While it doesn’t perhaps have quite the myriad of features that Adobe’s product does, it does have every tool I’ve ever […]
This HTML code should be illegal
The website www.inventor-link.com says that you are prohibited to link - or even refer - to them without their permission. Oops. According to their terms, you are not authorised to even look at their HTML code:
We also own all of the code, including the HTML code, and all content. As you may know, you can view […]
Web standards and the environment
A calendarial mishap left me thinking that Blog Action Day was on the 18th October when in fact it is, of course, today. It’s 23.00 here as I write this, so I have one hour to write a post and officially get away with it.
So the title of the post is “web standards and the environment”, […]
Microformats: page to phone in a minute
It doesn’t matter how much I try to explain the value of microformats, a good visual demonstration can show their benefits better than I ever could. Here’s a short video showing how the Operator extension can get information from a Google search to your mobile phone in less than a minute.
That makes a strong case for […]
The CSS Eleven: Style or substance?
CSS Eleven is an international group of visual web designers and developers who are committed to helping the W3C’s CSS Working Group to better deliver the tools that are needed to design tomorrow’s web.
I was unimpressed when I first heard about the CSS Eleven.
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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