The new structural elements in HTML5 include section, article, aside, hgroup, header, footer, nav, figure, figcaption, time, and mark. First, let’s look at support in Internet Explorer. Starting in version 9 of IE, there is support for all the new elements. Versions prior to that provided no support, not even partial. Other browsers have been [...]
The possibility that you may want media queries to work in older browsers does exist. We normally think of media queries as only being used to create responsive designs, which implies modern browsers on devices like iPhone or iPad. However, there is a JavaScript you can use if you need to support older browsers for [...]
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Yesterday on Blue Beanie Day, Stephanie Sullivan Rewis announced a new web project on the blog at web standards project. Her post was called Beyond the Blue Beanie. Today I’m happy to announce a new project, put together by a group of very passionate web folks, that can enable your entry into the process of [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
It’s Blue Beanie Day, the day on which we all show our support for web standards by wearing a blue beanie. Jeffrey Zeldman started this event several years ago. It’s been successful in getting all sorts of people to add blue beanies to their various avatars and standing up for web standards on a particular [...]
Monday, November 14, 2011
As I mentioned, I want to give the new WordPress Image Gallery a try. I gathered up some photos from the 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference to use as an experiment. The results? Easy to set up, easy to edit, easy to add titles and alt text. I don’t like that the thumbnails open in a [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
This weekend, I attended the Online News Association Conference in Boston. It was a great gathering of multimedia developers and those concerned with all things digital – quite a fantastic event. I had the opportunity to participate on a panel called “If I Were in Charge, I’d…” Proposals for the panel were solicited before the [...]
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
I’ve switched from Firefox to Chrome. Firefox kept getting slower and slower, often unresponsive, and I flat gave up on it. Chrome is faster, but a couple of things bug me. I like to open links in a new tab. I like it that way because I want to see what it was about while [...]
It turns out that this story was a hoax. Mashable and BBC News have both confirmed it. Sorry to have fallen for the story along with everyone else. But, I have to say, hoax or no hoax, if it shamed even one person into upgrading from IE 6 to a newer browser . . . The [...]
This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Development by W3C Imagine a web where our browsers connected directly to each other to do voice, video, media sharing and run applications, using P2P and real-time APIs, rather than going through centralized servers that controlled traffic and permissions.
In Search of the Internet Kill Switch by Jon Orlin is important reading if you are interested in what the U.S. government is considering doing to potentially shut down the Internet whenever they want. Microsoft is ending support for IE6. Here’s one announcement of that fact. It’s not often that we encourage you to stop [...]
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