Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
IE8 standards mode opt-in revealed
The Internet Explorer team announced today that we will have to opt in to using the improved standards support in future versions of their browser, by means of a meta declaration in the head of our documents:
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=8” />
Opera vs Microsoft
Well, Opera’s antitrust complaint against Microsoft certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons.
Developers came out on both sides of the issue; Andy Clarke called for the CSS Working Group to be disbanded, which had Daniel Glazman up in arms. David Baron wasn’t a fan of the idea either.
HTML 5 and reserved class names
I’ve been doing a bit of thinking recently.
I’ve been thinking about HTML 5 and the new semantic sectioning elements it proposes to introduce: header, footer, section, article, nav and aside.
I’ve also been thinking about the way microformats use data format standards and reserved class and id values to organise content.
Then thinking about this 2005 research into reused class […]
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.
What will we see in IE.Next?
With complaints about Microsoft’s lack of information regarding the next release of Internet Explorer surfacing again, I thought I’d do a quick trawl of the internet and find out what features we might expect from the next release, both speculated and confirmed.
One thing that’s certain is that we’ll see a new layout engine, which is more […]
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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