Archive for the 'What's New' Category

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Embedding Fonts

Embedding fonts in your web page so your visitors will see the content in the right font whether they have it on their computer already or not has a number of issues including that some browsers don’t support it, some require different file formats than others, some will download the font even if they already [...]

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Attributes Dropped From HTML 5

While there are not many tags that are proposed to be dropped, there are quite a few attributes that are suggested for removal from the next version of HTML.
Attributes Dropped From HTML 5

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Changed meanings in HTML 5

The proposal for the next HTML version suggests changes to the meanings of several tags but does not provide a mechanism for determining which HTML version is being used to allow you to work out which meaning is intended.
Changed meanings in HTML 5

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Tags Removed From HTML 5

After the tag cleanup in HTML 4 there are not many extra tags that the next version could do away with.
Tags Removed From HTML 5

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

HTML 5 New Form Fields

There are lots of new input field types proposed to be added to the next version of HTML. Almost all of them will make form processing much easier.
HTML 5 New Form Fields

Monday, March 1st, 2010

HTML 5 New Tags

The proposal for the next version of HTML lists a significant number of new tags. Here we look at what all the new tags are and what the closest equivalents are in the current standard.
HTML 5 New Tags

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

“CSS Cookbook”

As I reviewed this book I was rather disappointed in how many errors there were with the HTML and JavaScript. It wasn’t until I compared my review of this third edition with what I had written a few years ago about the second edition that I realised just how much the book has actually improved.
“CSS [...]

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

“HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference”

This pocket sized reference covers a whole three versions of HTML. There are the old obsolete HTML 3.2 codes (as permitted under the HTML 4 transitional doctype), the current standard HTML 4 (strict) codes, and the preliminary draft HTML 5 codes. They are all labelled as to which version they apply to but are unfortunately [...]

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Support for Older Browsers

Not all browsers support using tables for your page layout. While layout tables have been a part of the CSS standard for quite some time, Internet Explorer only introduced support for layout tables in version 8. You have a number of options on how to deal with how your page will look for those visitors [...]

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Table Properties

You can further refine your CSS tables using properties that are specific to tables.
Table Properties

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Positioning Content Within CSS Tables

A CSS table provides the basic structure for the layout of a part of your web page. In this sixth tutorial on CSS tables we look at how you can position your content within the table.
Positioning Content Within CSS Tables

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Dynamic Copyright Watermark

About the only effective way of protecting your images on the web is to watermark the images themselves. Any other form of “protection” is useless because the images are downloaded to your visitors’ computers in order for their browser to be able to display the web page and that image file can therefore be easily [...]