Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2008 February Archive
Three things I’d like to see in Firefox 3.1
Let me say up front that from what I’ve seen of Firefox 3 so far, it really looks to be a knockout browser; it’s light, fast, extensible, and the interface is flawless. The one and only thing that’s disappointed me slightly, however, is the lack of new front-end features for developers like myself to take […]
hr height > 100px; a new IE bug?
Is it possible that I’ve found a new IE bug, after all these years? And, worse still, a bug that wasn’t fixed in IE7? I’ve just spent half an hour looking for a solution, and I can’t find a single mention; surely someone has come across this before me?
It involves horizontal rules and the way they […]
Future of Web Design 2008
My exceptionally supportive bosses have offered to buy me a Conference Pass for Future of Web Design 2008 on April 17, so if anyone reading this is attending and feels like meeting up, do get in touch.
Explaining the C in CSS
After being a developer for a while you sometimes forget that there are a lot of people still learning. With that in mind - and working on the assumption that the more information that’s available, the easier it is to find - I’ve decided to start an occasional series of web development basics tutorials.
One of the […]
CSS improvements in Firefox 3 - Part One
The latest version of the Firefox browser is due for release in the near future, and the nightly and beta versions I’ve been testing show that it’s taking a big step forward from its predecessor. As well as the many usability and performance enhancements, there are a whole host of improvements to the engine; mainly […]
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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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