Category: Basics
A series on fundamental knowledge of web development, aimed at beginners.
Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
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 […]
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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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