In the past days the fragmentation of web technologies was mainly caused by the corporate interests and while it has gone nowhere, it has shown some considerable improvement over the past years (see IE dumping CSS hacks or IE8 to pass Acid2 from 2008). Nevertheless, what we’re witnessing today, is of a different kind. Two main open standards bodies involved in HTML5 development, WHATWG and W3C, are struggling to find the common ground.
Read the rest of this entry »
As by the HTML 4.01 specification, all attribute definitions of lists, such as ordered lists and unordered lists, are deprecated, meaning that you can’t make a list purely in HTML that would skip some numbers, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 5 skipping 4. Previously you could use start or value attribute to set a value for the list item. Now, as the attributes have became deprecated, any self-respecting coder would expect CSS to kick in with the alternative. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Read the rest of this entry »
A notorious subject in whole, all W3C-capable newsletter coders must be familiar with Outlook support for open standards. To make it short, it looks like the bubble of Microsoft’s long-praised work towards standards compliance is threatening to burst. Read the rest of this entry »
Years ago, for Internet Explorer 5, Microsoft took a shortcut to ‘extended CSS support’ that they called the Dynamic Properties. Despite the fancy name it had nothing to do with W3C Cascading Style Sheet standards nor was it available cross-platform. Now, as the software giant has realized the impact of open standards, they are giving up on these non-standard developments. Read the rest of this entry »
Good news for the developers – IE8 will pass Acid2, a test case, written to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards.
Read the rest of this entry »
WebKit now natively supports getElementsByClassName, one of the most requested functions by JavaScript programmers. Read the rest of this entry »
WebKit has introduced another great feature – CSS animation. It is simply amazing what you can do with CSS transitions combined with CSS transforms.
Read the rest of this entry »
To emphasize greater use of Cascading Style Sheets — there are few very good reasons to dump endless HTML table structures in favour of CSS.
Read the rest of this entry »
In addition to Web Fonts recently introduced in WebKit, there’s now a rudimentary support for CSS transforms as well. As of now you can scale, rotate, skew and translate the boxes in the latest nightly of WebKit.
Read the rest of this entry »
Despite Mozilla’s enormous effort to Firefox, WebKit developers have proven their Acid2 compatible framework is flexible enough for the Safari’s latest success to prevail. Newest CSS3 developments show off.
Read the rest of this entry »
