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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The latest round of discussions related to longdesc (yes, still) was triggered by a revert request from Laura Carlson: As you know the editor made changes to the hidden section [1]. This biases an open issue [2] as it directly implements a material change from a change proposal [3]. The […]
Earlier today I got into a friendly discussion and debate on Twitter about a new web site called W3Fools. The site bills itself as a “W3Schools intervention”, and the purpose is to wake developers up to the fact that W3School tutorials can, and do, have errors. The problem with a site like W3Fools, I said (using […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Henri Bergius wrote a piece on Google’s seeming desire to replace all web components, except HTML. Among the “new” technologies: SPDY to replace HTTP schema.org and Microdata to replace a decade’s worth of semantic work with RDF and microformats WebP, a new image format WebM, a new video format And now […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This last weekend I finished my latest book for O’Reilly: HTML5 Media. This is one of O’Reilly’s shorter books (about 100 pages), primarily focused at the eBook market, though you can get a hard copy with print-on-demand. The book focuses on the HTML5 audio and video elements. I cover how to […]
One of the still open issues with HTML5 is the lack of a verbose descriptor for an image, since the longdesc attribute was made obsolete. The longdesc attribute used to take a URL to a separate page or page fragment that contained a long text description for a complex or highly nuanced image. Typically, the […]