Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 November Archive
Infuriating HTML quiz
How many HTML elements can you name in five minutes? Sounds like it should be easy, but after the initial burst your mind suddenly goes blank. I only got a rather shameful 45…
I want my Email Standards
[We work] with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
The Email Standards Project
It’s fair to say that a large chunk of the web industry now understands the importance of standards; from browser makers to designer/developers, we’ve taken on board the years of evangelising by early adopters and in […]
My favourite features in Firefox 3 are in Opera
I’ve been playing with the Firefox 3 nightlies for quite a while now so the first beta release didn’t really hold any great surprises for me. The updated rendering engine is fast and clean, and it’s got lots of nice new features which make it a treat to use. Most of my favourite new features […]
The future of email design
Short and interesting slide presentation (with summary) from the guys at Campaign Monitor on the general state of HTML email since 1998, and it’s potential for the future: The future of email design. I’m really looking forward to the launch of the email standards project, as HTML emails give me a pain in the neck.
<video> support in browsers
Firefox has experimental support. Opera has experimental support. And now, Webkit has experimental support. The new HTML5 <video> element is getting support from a large part of the browser market.
According to the spec, User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as well as the Ogg container format; Firefox and Opera do so […]
Where is Safari 3?
Why hasn’t Safari 3 come out of Beta yet? Leopard was released weeks ago, and Safari 3.04 was included in that; presumably that was a full release version and not a Beta, so why hasn’t a full release happened for other OS’s yet? I understand the Windows version might be delayed a little, but the […]
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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