Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
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.
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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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Baseline standards in HTML emails
Part of being a web professional is having to explain to clients that what they see on their screen isn’t what all of their visitors will see on theirs; differences in OS, fonts, browsers, and monitors all mean that there will be slight variations in the way your pages display. When it comes to HTML […]
Seeing the light on microformats
It took me a while to see the benefits of microformats, but now I’m definitely there. In October 2006, the UK WSG meeting was all about microformats, and I decided it was too faddy, too niche for me, and that I wouldn’t bother. I regret that now.
The first thing that changed my mind for me was […]
CSS 3 and HTML 5: Simple Semantics
Interesting times to be a web developer, as HTML 5 and CSS 3 are both on the (somewhat distant) horizon. I’ve just written about the Advanced Layout module on CSS3.info, IBM developer works have a nice introduction to the new elements of HTML 5, and Wikipedia has a chart of current browser implementation.
In a few(?) years […]
Aside
Steve Ballmer has said that Microsoft “may look at” using Webkit in future versions of Internet Explorer (contradicting Chris Wilson’s statement last year that they wouldn’t). I really can’t see it; at least, not in the near future. Perhaps for Windows Mobile, as Webkit is proving itself in the mobile space, but almost certainly not on the desktop.
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