Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
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 […]
Web standards and the environment
A calendarial mishap left me thinking that Blog Action Day was on the 18th October when in fact it is, of course, today. It’s 23.00 here as I write this, so I have one hour to write a post and officially get away with it.
So the title of the post is “web standards and the environment”, […]
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 […]
The CSS Eleven: Style or substance?
CSS Eleven is an international group of visual web designers and developers who are committed to helping the W3C’s CSS Working Group to better deliver the tools that are needed to design tomorrow’s web.
I was unimpressed when I first heard about the CSS Eleven.
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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Mark Boulton Design have been selected to redesign drupal.org, the website of the Drupal CMS. I’m a big admirer of Mark’s writing about design and typography, and I think it’s exciting that a big open-source project is going in this direction.
Now, if we could get him to design the Drupal user interface (as Veerle Pieters is doing with Expression Engine), that would really be something.
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