Entries filed under 'Xhtml'
Web Standards: Semantic or Pragmatic?
Filed under XHTML, CSS on 10.04.08
For anyone involved in front-end web development, it’s a scenario that crops up several times a day. The designer has delivered an attractive layout for a section of the page for you to markup and style. Semantically, you know there is a ‘correct’ way to markup the code—but you also know that once the content gets in there, things can start to go wrong.
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More Facebook weirdness - horizontal scrollbar in iframe
Filed under XHTML on 26.02.08
Another oddity I’ve just come across when developing an IFRAMEd Facebook application; the iframe used to display your pages has the CSS overflow property set to “auto” (I think), which causes a horizontal scrollbar to appear when your page content exceeds the height provided (determined by the window height).
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Mobile Web Development research
Filed under XHTML, Internet on 10.01.08
I’ve been doing some WAP development this week, which has been an opportunity to learn about a new area that I’ve not previously looked into in much detail. Luckily my client only wants WAP2.0, so I’ve not had to learn WML, just XHTML-MP, so the learning curve has been pretty shallow, but I thought it would be helpful to list some of the resources I’ve found useful.
Quick HTML tip: Use the <button> element
Filed under XHTML on 26.01.06
In Google’s recent Web Authoring Statistics study, in the section on the use of classnames, they commented:
The button class baffles us. We can’t really tell what what it is used for.
Perhaps they don’t have cause to build many web forms, but it was immediately obvious to me why a class of ‘button’ would be used so frequently. Consider a simple form (simplified for this example):
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Unscientific poll: Do you use the <base /> element?
Filed under XHTML on 10.11.05
I’ve just started very early work on a new site, and immediately came across a common problem when templating – do you use absolute or relative paths to reference all your CSS, Javascript and image files?
As my working folder was buried down in a series of contract-related directories, absolute paths (i.e. href="/images/myfile.gif") were not an option; but with an eye on the finished product, relative paths (i.e. href="../images/myfile.gif") become a headache later on.
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Microformats - I don't get it
Filed under XHTML, Internet on 23.06.05
Firing up Bloglines tonight, I was greeted by the news (via Simplebits) that a new website had been launched to tell the world about Microformats.
Fantastic, I thought – some of the top designers, bloggers and other people-in-the-know have been dropping hints about the sheer genius and Web 2.0-ness of microformats for some time now, so I had high hopes that here was a turning point in the life of the web.
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