Microsoft’s Chris Wilson, the Group Program Manager for IE, is interviewed by ZDNet regarding the issue of whether Microsoft’s latest web browser IE7 is - and will be - CSS and Web standards compliant. Some people are still skeptical.
Way back, when I upgraded my personal site to WordPress 2.0 and began playing with the new WYSIWYG post editor, I noticed something about the bold and italic buttons in the tag helper bar: they say bold and italic but they output strong and em, respectively.
There’s been a push in the developer community to begin […]
April 5th is the first annual CSS Naked Day!
Welcome to the first annual CSS naked day which will be happening April 5th, 2006. The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and; well, a fun […]
It has been a while since my last post. I have been hard at work contracting at a top pharma company in the Philadelphia area, developing their new website. For some strange reason, this company has decided to use the SAP Portal system to power their website. This has cause me nothing […]
Any good, upstanding web nerd knows Tim Berners-Lee. Recently he was interviewed by the British Computer Society. Berners-Lee makes some very good points about the state of the web and the direction its heading. Most of all he captures the essence of what has been discussed at several of the PSO meetings […]
Will makes an interesting point in his blog post about using browser-specific CSS and still having webpages validate. His quandry:
Have you ever been tempted to use a CSS property such as -moz-border-radius, but can’t stand the thought of having a page that refuses to validate?
He can’t add it to an external stylesheet through <link>, nor […]
Web developers have been told to ensure that the sites they build are operable with browsers which rival Internet Explorer. This includes open-source heroes Firefox and Apple’s Safari. Deri Jones of SciVisum explains their reasoning and has the XiTI metrics to back it up:
Jones advised web developers to develop code around the W3C’s Cascading Style […]
Taken from StraightUpSearch, yet another reason to get on the Standards Bus:
“Why should my corporation care what the page markup looks like? Because search engines do. They care so much that they have dedicated teams of programmers who do nothing but define meaning between elements on a page, developing algorithms to assign rank and value […]
I frequently get information for our site at work in an Excel file. This leaves me with two options. The first is to save as HTML and wade through hours of trash markup. It’s no secret that Microsoft Office documents saved as web pages create messy markup. This is tedious and takes forever. […]
I’ve been reading 24 Ways to impress your friends for about two weeks. It’s a site from Drew McClellan.
Each day from now until 24th December, we’ll be publishing a new short article or tip designed to teach you something that perhaps you didn’t know, and in turn can share with your friends. It’s a […]