Replacement for deprecated OL/LI start/value HTML attributes

Posted on 7th September 2009 in CSS, Open Standards | 1 Comment »

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 »

Testing standards compliance of Microsoft Outlook 2007

Posted on 28th November 2008 in Open Standards | 1 Comment »

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 »

Testing Typeroom

Posted on 11th April 2008 in Web 2.0 | 11 Comments »

In one of the earlier posts about editing a site with Typeroom there was a nice review of functionality but it missed a real-life test case. Now as we have had a really nice option to test it, here is the more specific addition to the previous article.
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W3C Selectors API now in WebKit

Posted on 16th February 2008 in Browsers, CSS | No Comments »

WebKit has introduced another development towards greater support of W3C initiatives – Selectors API, currently in the status of Working Draft. Read the rest of this entry »

CSS3 transforms in WebKit

Posted on 27th October 2007 in CSS, Open Standards | 6 Comments »

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.
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