Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
Immediate uses for Microformats
One of the hardest things about Microformats is explaining their benefits to people. You can say “It’s a standardised format of marking-up content, which is both human and machine readable!” until you’re blue in the face, but until you can show people a practical benefit they usually remain unmoved.
Luckily there are a few tools out there […]
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 […]
Mozilla Prism: Am I missing something?
Although they didn’t create the concept, Mozilla popularised tabbed browsing with the release of Firefox. Tabbed browsing is, of course, a very good thing; the old IE model of having a separate window for every instance of a site you open became unmanageable when computers got more powerful and websites no longer slowed down the […]
iPhone love is rather distasteful
I find all the fanboy attention being paid to the iPhone more than a little embarrassing. I mean, certainly it looks nice; but it’s just an object. A thing. Not something to fawn over to the degree we’ve seen today.
Bloglines moves backwards with Ajax
I’ve used Bloglines for a long time to organise the many (too many?) feeds I read daily. I’ve always been happy with it, resisting the charms of new kids on the block such as Google Reader, but recently there’ve been some changes I find have taken the service a few steps backwards.
Mozilla gets native video support
Mozilla’s Chris Double has announced on his blog that he’s implemented the (proposed) HTML5 <video> element in a build of Firefox (demo screencast). The element will natively support OGG Theora files.
While I think this is great news and has a lot of potential, I foresee one major obstacle to this becoming standard: proprietary codecs. If they […]
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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