Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
Firefox (Gran Paradiso) 3a7: -moz-initial and forms
Recently I was chatting with Rapha Martins, and he mentioned a feature he’d like to see in CSS: a ‘default’ value for properties; that is, if you change the value of a property, a keyword that would change it back to the browser default rather than you having to specify that value again.
That has been proposed […]
CSS in emails, HTML vs XHTML, and more
I’m back from my holiday, with a quick look at some of the links I would have discussed in more detail had I been here…
SVG waiting in the wings
One technology that’s ready to take the step up onto the big stage is SVG. If you’re not sure what that is, its Wikipedia entry provides a good summary:
SVG is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated.
That’s a pretty big deal; static or animated images which are marked up with XML, […]
New features in Gecko 1.9
Gecko is the rendering engine used in browsers such as Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino, Epiphany, Netscape, and more.
The next version (1.9, currently available as a preview release) introduces a whole load of new features and fixes to the engine. In my last post I mentioned the speed increase thanks to the move to a new graphics layer […]
Five books that have helped me develop
I made my first forays into web development back in 1998, with my own Geocities homepage (now sadly defunct). It was after I developed my first ‘proper’ website (an unoffical guide to the FIFA Club World Championship 2000; please don’t laugh, this was eight years ago…) that I decided I wanted to be a professional developer.
I’m […]
Good news on FF3 and IE.next
Good news for DOM scripters: Firefox 3 is to support getElementsByClassName. Fingers crossed the other browsers follow suit soon, so we can stop using 20 lines of code where one will do.
Good news for everyone: Microsoft look as if they’re taking web standards seriously. First came the news that standards guru Molly E. Holzschlag has signed […]
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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