Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
I want my Email Standards
[We work] with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
The Email Standards Project
It’s fair to say that a large chunk of the web industry now understands the importance of standards; from browser makers to designer/developers, we’ve taken on board the years of evangelising by early adopters and in […]
The future of email design
Short and interesting slide presentation (with summary) from the guys at Campaign Monitor on the general state of HTML email since 1998, and it’s potential for the future: The future of email design. I’m really looking forward to the launch of the email standards project, as HTML emails give me a pain in the neck.
<video> support in browsers
Firefox has experimental support. Opera has experimental support. And now, Webkit has experimental support. The new HTML5 <video> element is getting support from a large part of the browser market.
According to the spec, User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as well as the Ogg container format; Firefox and Opera do so […]
This HTML code should be illegal
The website www.inventor-link.com says that you are prohibited to link - or even refer - to them without their permission. Oops. According to their terms, you are not authorised to even look at their HTML code:
We also own all of the code, including the HTML code, and all content. As you may know, you can view […]
Microformats: page to phone in a minute
It doesn’t matter how much I try to explain the value of microformats, a good visual demonstration can show their benefits better than I ever could. Here’s a short video showing how the Operator extension can get information from a Google search to your mobile phone in less than a minute.
That makes a strong case for […]
Five essential CSS tips from top developers
The October 2007 issue of the UK web development magazine .net has an interesting feature this month where web professionals share their favourite tips for coding CSS. Here are the five tips, with links to read more about them.
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Mark Boulton Design have been selected to redesign drupal.org, the website of the Drupal CMS. I’m a big admirer of Mark’s writing about design and typography, and I think it’s exciting that a big open-source project is going in this direction.
Now, if we could get him to design the Drupal user interface (as Veerle Pieters is doing with Expression Engine), that would really be something.
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