Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
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 […]
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 […]
Aside
Not only did I correctly predict Firefox 3.1, but one of my visions was that they implement the remaining CSS 3 selectors - which has just been announced. My uncanny powers are beginning to scare me.
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