Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2008 January Archive
@media 2008
My very kind and understanding bosses have just agreed to pay for me to attend this year’s @Media event in London, on May 29th-30th. If any readers are likely to attend, drop me a line and we could meet up to say hello.
New Firefox themes arrive
The latest nightly releases of Firefox 3 (warning: download nightlies at your own risk) for Windows and OS X feature the new themes for each platform for the first time (click to enlarge the thumbnails):
Both are nicely designed and look as if they will integrate well with their respective desktops, although it must be noted that […]
A new CSS Reference
When learning CSS I relied heavily on Index Dot Css, a comprehensive guide to CSS support in browsers. It’s still very useful, although sadly not updated since October 2003. After that I turned to W3Schools CSS Reference (when I didn’t have my copy of the CSS Pocket Reference to hand); it’s nicely laid out and […]
IE8 opt-in: no problem after all?
After two days of commotion regarding the Internet Explorer team’s decision to include a standards opt-in in the next version of their browser, Mozilla’s John Resig has noticed something rather important in an exchange on IE’s Chris Wilson’s blog; namely:
Internet Explorer 8 will support DOCTYPE switching for new DOCTYPEs (like HTML5).
IE8 opt-in: reaction from other browser makers
Predictably, yesterday’s announcement from Microsoft about the new standards opt-in switch has created quite a stir in the web development community. As I noted yesterday, the reaction from the other browser makers would be quite important - and it looks as if they’re not interested.
IE8 standards mode opt-in revealed
The Internet Explorer team announced today that we will have to opt in to using the improved standards support in future versions of their browser, by means of a meta declaration in the head of our documents:
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=8” />
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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