Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
Firefox 3: the Google browser?
Mozilla have announced that Firefox 3 is to provide support for using web applications offline - despite, as developer Mark Finkle admits, most users not needing it.
The development of offline apps is awarded a higher priority than some other features I would have thought more desirable - fuller SVG support, for example - so why the […]
Designing SVG with Inkscape
SVG looks set to be the future of web graphics - the distant future, perhaps, as it’s not yet supported by IE without a plugin. Opera’s Chief Web Opener, David Storey, announced on his blog recently that future builds of Opera will support SVG on the CSS background-image declaration. This is very good news, and […]
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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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