Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
<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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Baseline standards in HTML emails
Part of being a web professional is having to explain to clients that what they see on their screen isn’t what all of their visitors will see on theirs; differences in OS, fonts, browsers, and monitors all mean that there will be slight variations in the way your pages display. When it comes to HTML […]
Seeing the light on microformats
It took me a while to see the benefits of microformats, but now I’m definitely there. In October 2006, the UK WSG meeting was all about microformats, and I decided it was too faddy, too niche for me, and that I wouldn’t bother. I regret that now.
The first thing that changed my mind for me was […]
Aside
Steve Ballmer has said that Microsoft “may look at” using Webkit in future versions of Internet Explorer (contradicting Chris Wilson’s statement last year that they wouldn’t). I really can’t see it; at least, not in the near future. Perhaps for Windows Mobile, as Webkit is proving itself in the mobile space, but almost certainly not on the desktop.
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