Wednesday, December 2, 2009
My local newspaper carried an article on Sunday that claimed that Google’s Chrome was a much better browser than the competition, particularly Internet Explorer. I don’t disagree with that conclusion, but there have been better browsers than IE around for a long time: Firefox, Opera, Safari and others. Yet IE still holds the majority of [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Usability Issues that Impact Online Learning from Faculty Focus doesn’t mention specific tools that meet some of the standards suggested for good usability in online learning, but it does tell you some things to strive for: Good usability for online learning materials means the site, content, and media are easy to find, use, and navigate. [...]
You now have access to all the Sitepoint References for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript available in Firefox as an add-on. You can download the Codeburner add-on free from Sitepoint. The references provide syntax information, browser compatibility charts and sample code for HTML and CSS. The new add-on was just released. For a limited time, you [...]
This article is one in a series of brief discussions about the proposed specifications for HTML 5. View the Working Draft for HTML 5 at the W3C. The section element is a new semantic element. It groups related content. This might be a part or chapter in a book, a section in a chapter, or [...]
This article is one in a series of brief discussions about the proposed specifications for HTML 5. View the Working Draft for HTML 5 at the W3C. The nav element is a new semantic element. It is meant for navigation or a table of contents. Each nav may include other HTML elements, particularly lists of [...]
This article is the first in a series of brief discussions about the proposed specifications for HTML 5. View the Working Draft for HTML 5 at the W3C. The DOCTYPE declaration for HTML5 is very simple. <!DOCTYPE html> This DOCTYPE declaration can be used for documents that use either HTML and XHTML syntax. It is [...]
Why browser zoom shouldn’t kill flexible layouts from zomigi talks about whether browser zoom solves all the problems solved by flexible and liquid layouts. Zoe contends that zoom doesn’t do all that. The fallacy of page zooming from All in the Head is another voice in the discussion. And two posts from early in the [...]
Experimental CSS compatibility table from westciv is worthy of a bookmark. This page currently lists compatibility for more recently added features of CSS in contemporary browsers. What’s new in Safari 4 on the Apple site describes features of the newest Safari browser. Check out the developer tools, which are automatically included and need only be [...]
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