Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
Generated content - Part One: Content
One of the pieces of good news from the Internet Explorer 8 announcement is that the new browser will support generated content. This is something the IE team have been resisting for a while, but it’s a very useful and flexible extension to CSS (whether or not it should be included is an argument for […]
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, […]
How to apply for a web development job
The company I work for has a lot of SMB websites to produce over the next three or four months so we’re looking for a client-side developer to come in and help us out for a short term. I placed an ad on a few websites with details of what we’re looking for, and waited […]
I took the 2007 Web Design survey
Over at A List Apart they’re asking people in the web industry to participate in their first annual web design survey, to try and build up a profile of who we are and what we do.
Closed for the holidays
I’m off on holiday - back towards the end of April. I’ve written a new post for CSS3.info before I go: Kill IE6 to let CSS3 live.
Moved to my own domain
I’ve moved to my new domain: www.Broken-Links.com (no, I don’t like the hyphen either). RSS Feeds should be updated automatically, and all old links should redirect here… fingers crossed…
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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