Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
2008 April Archive
The end of the font element
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 […]
Unveiling my new theme
Anyone not reading this in an RSS feed will notice that I’ve installed a new theme. I was never really happy with the previous one, as it was based on a design that had been rejected from another project and was called into action before it was ready.
I’ve given this one a version number of 0.5, […]
What I saw at FoWD 2008
As promised, slightly more detailed notes on the sessions at FoWD (further links to presentations to follow). In chronological order:
Finding Inspiration for Design (Patrick McNeil)
I missed the beginning of this, but it seemed to be pretty sage, if not rather commonsense, advice (don’t just use websites for web design inspiration), as well as some notes on current […]
Impressions of FOWD 2008
Yesterday I attended the Future Of Web Design London event in Kensington (along with my lovely wife). Unfortunately I’ve been suffering from some stinking virus for the past couple of days, which left me uncomfortable, occasionally in pain, and irritated. Please bear in mind that this may have coloured my perception of the event somewhat; […]
CushyCMS Review
CushyCMS is a very simple, nice idea for allowing users to edit content on their website without giving them access to the templates. It doesn’t allow changes to mark-up or style sheets, only titles, images and blocks of copy.
It requires that the site admin marks up the blocks that will be editable by adding class=”cushycms” to […]
CSS Variables proposal is released
I mentioned CSS Variables previously, and now the proposal has been published and I agree with authors Daniel Glazman and David Hyatt when they say:
We expect CSS Variables to receive a very positive feedback from both the Web authors’ community and browser vendors.
The syntax will be to declare the variables using the @variables at-rule, then calling them […]
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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