Tag: W3C

In a rather curious development, HTML5 has garnered enough celebrity to warrant its own official logo. Its heraldic and angular appearance obviously represents HTML5's role as the resilient vanguard of the open Web -- or, on second thoughts, it may simply be a reference to Superman's S shield. Neither HTML4, HTML3, or indeed any version of HTML, has ever had its own logo before. There is an ...

IE9 will make great leaps in standards compliance -- but not simply by following the standards executed by W3C. Instead, they have analyzed real-world use to see which API calls to implement, to reduce the amount of code developers have to write. In the keynote, they are now showing how Firefox, Chrome and IE9 all display rounded corners (CSS3) and execute addEventListener correctly. The ...

The folks at BaseKit think that the process of website creation is due for an overhaul -- and boy do I agree! The time for writing code in an editor, creating artwork in another app and uploading it all bit-by-bit is OVER. The folks at BaseKit pose a good question: why don't we make websites online, in the browser? There are some nascent attempts, like the cheap-and-cheerful approach of Google ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/12/16/the-future-of-html-is-looking-bright-file-system-and-external-d/'; There's been a lot of HTML-related news recently: first there was the WebGL draft standard, then editor's draft for the File API and now it looks like there's going to be support for devices. At long last, your browser will have access to your webcam, microphone and other ...

My biggest issue with Internet Explorer has always been the way that it renders CSS. Like come on! Why does it have to have so many issues? On a side note, thanks for having so many issues, because I would have never found Firefox. Anyway, I know Microsoft must have known about the issues, and I know that they knew about web standards, and of course the W3C CSS standards, but why not just put a ...