BurningbirdI’m writing an article on using SVG for site decoration and backgrounds. Since SVG is now allowed in HTML via HTML5, it seemed a good time to introduce people to the concept. Especially since the nightly build of Firefox 3.7 has a configuration option (“about:configure”) where you can enable HTML5. To test the new option […]
Ian Hickson, sole author of the HTML 5 specification, on standards in a recent #whatwg IRC discussion: i think standards bodies are an outdated concept Using the Firefox nightly, I was able to open an HTML5 document that contains a SVG graphic, and see it rendered, though the page was served as HTML. Wonderful! Unfortunately, running […]
I’m usually good about reminding (nee nagging) my friends about updating their WordPress weblogs, but in case any of you missed the last upgrade, there’s a good chance your weblog may have been seriously compromised. Lorelle covers the exploit and how you can tell if your site has been compromised. From other discussions, I gather that if […]
Recently, a group of well known web designers issued a “Super Friends” declaration of support or HTML5, with an attached set of concerns. Most of the concerns had to do with the new “semantic markup” elements included in HTML5, such as section, article, and so on. I’ve not previously discussed these new semantic page markup elements, because I […]
aroli was talking about an incident in her neighborhood via Twitter that I later found out to have been at a Healthcare reform protest put on by MoveOn. Karoli recounts the pro-reformer’s side of the event, and there seems to be any number of people wanting to jump on that particular wagon. I’m not one of them. The […]