Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2007 December Archive
Opera vs Microsoft
Well, Opera’s antitrust complaint against Microsoft certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons.
Developers came out on both sides of the issue; Andy Clarke called for the CSS Working Group to be disbanded, which had Daniel Glazman up in arms. David Baron wasn’t a fan of the idea either.
You can start using HTML 5 right now!
There’s an interesting post on warpspire.com at the moment, decrying the speed of implementation for HTML 5 and CSS 3 and suggesting Flash/AIR as a better alternative. I completely disagree with it, but it’s interesting nonetheless. HTML 5 in particular comes in for heavy criticism as it’s preceived that its adoption will take too long.
But, as […]
Worst. Announcement. Ever.
After complaints from the web community about lack of transparency in the development of the next Internet Explorer, and a little browbeating from Molly Holzschlag, Bill Gates says there is no “deep secret” about what they’re doing with IE, and the IE team have responded by releasing the detail we’ve all been waiting for: the […]
HTML 5 and reserved class names
I’ve been doing a bit of thinking recently.
I’ve been thinking about HTML 5 and the new semantic sectioning elements it proposes to introduce: header, footer, section, article, nav and aside.
I’ve also been thinking about the way microformats use data format standards and reserved class and id values to organise content.
Then thinking about this 2005 research into reused class […]
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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