BurningbirdThis has not been a week for centralized services. With the announcement of the Yahoo/Microsoft partnership, I figured the writing was on the wall and decided it was time to decentralize my bookmarks. Good-bye delicious, hello Scuttle. I don’t use a bookmark service because its part of social media. I use it because I have […]
I’m experimenting with my first attempt at using embedded fonts here at RealTech. I’m using the Gentium Basic TrueType font, which I downloaded from Font Squirrel. Since Internet Explorer doesn’t support truetype fonts, I had to use the ttf2eot application to convert the truetype into EOT, which is what Microsoft supports. Edward O’Connor has a […]
Manu Sporny and Ian Hickson have had an interesting, and telling, exchange about RDFa and microdata in the HTML WG list (see the opening email for the thread). In one of the emails, Hickson writes about why he created a whole new microdata section, rather than incorporate RDFa: By “technical problems” I mean problems with the design, as opposed […]
Latest in my HTML5, A Story in Progress: Separating Canvas out of HTML 5. Recent discussions about Canvas and accessibility should highlight the importance of pulling the Canvas object API from the HTML 5 specification. The HTML WG went outside its charter to incorporate the Canvas API into the HTML 5 specification. Keeping it in is […]
The HTML 5 specification is too large, that’s a given. Too large, and too diverse. With the merge of the DOM into the specification, as well as an attempt to cover two different serializations, not to mention the microdata section, it’s difficult to describe the HTML 5 spec as an “improvement on HTML 4”, which […]