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- HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more
- In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favorite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also tells what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time....
- Tags: Web, HTML, Author, Specification, Web Browser, Feature, HTML5, HTML4, Justin James
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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- Choosing the right document type for Web pages
- One of the features of HTML standards is that each HTML document requires a document type declaration DOCTYPE. This tells the user agent that is accessing the document what standard to use to render it. Web developers are often confused when using a document type and simply omit it. This...
- Tags: Web Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Reference: Useful HTML tags and their attributes
- Body tag and attributes<BODY>...</BODY>Contains the viewed portion of the document<BODY bgcolor="color">Sets the color of the background in hexadecimal code<BODY background="filename.xxx">Sets an image as a page's background wallpaper<BODY text="color">Specifies the color of normal text in hexadecimal code<BODY link="color">Specifies the default color of unvisited links in hexadecimal code<BODY alink="color">Specifies the color of...
- Tags: IMG, IMG SRC, font
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Close window without error
- I don't want the "do you want to close" error.Here's my code:Untitled DocumentPoint value changed by question poster.Hello Sonna...By design, a web browser is only supposed to allow JavaScript to close a window that was created by JavaScript. So, as coded, your page should not be able to close itself....
- Tags: DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC, HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN, http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd, sonnaccino, Untitled Document, window
- Q&A 2005-04-12
- Five HTML oddities that you may not know
- What have you noticed about HTML that is strange?If you've looked at the spec, have you noticed anything odd in HTML? What about how browsers handle it?J.JaDoctype can make a differenceIf your using tables for page layout, the table attribute 'height' doesn't work if the Doctype is strict. ...
- Tags: Web browsers, DOCTYPE, HTML
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Next Explorer to fail Acid test
- Next Explorer to fail Acid testarticle rootNext Explorer to fail Acid testIn its browser blog, Microsoft acknowledged that IE 7 would not pass the Web Standards Project's Acid2 test, which examines a browser's support for W3C recommendations including CSS1, HTML4, and PNG. However, competing browsers Opera and Safari are already...
- Tags: acid test, browsers, css, hardware, ie7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Sonja Thompson, standards, w3c
- Discussion threads 2005-08-02
- XML RPC Call
- I need some help making a RPC call to a database grabing a value from the returned results and making another call with that value and take 3 or 4 values from that call and insert that into a table in my database.At the moment I have figured out how...
- Tags: document.GetElementByID, methodName, XML-RPC Call, xml, sql, rpc, Value at Risk, rheal.dugas@..., software
- Discussion threads 2006-01-11
- Javascript Functions - Help!
- I am new to Javascript in web design and I can't figure this out. For some reason my function StartClock12 and function StartDate will not work while the other function are there. If I delete functions downloaddata and displaydata, StartClock12 and StartDate work fine. Can anyone tell me...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Operating systems, marqueedata.startDownload
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
- Link to external style sheets
- By Matt Rotter, Charity Kahn, and Paul AndersonDefining styles in the HTML document is useful if you want to affect only one Web page, but what if you want to use the same styles for several pages--or even a whole site? That's when it makes sense to create an external...
- Tags: style sheet, HTML, HTML document, external style sheet
- Technical articles 2003-09-29
- Enhance Web application design with Dojo
- There is only so much time in the day, so anything that helps build useful Web applications is a welcome additional to any developer's toolbox. Some of the more popular free online toolkits I've covered previously are: jQuery, scriptaculous, and the Yahoo! User Interface YUI Library. This week's focus is...
- Tags: Web Development, Web Design, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Benign entities and misfit characters
- Manage difficult characters in HTML.By Paul AndersonTime for another one of my Web peeves. All too often, especially on sites with lots of written copy, you'll come across a strange statement looking something like this:These odd hieroglyphs tend to occur where apostrophes, quotes, or em dashes should be; you are...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, Guest Contributor, character set, Latin-1, Web browser
- Technical articles 2000-01-24
- Moving to CSS-based layouts with the YUI Library
- While initiating a recent project to make substantial changes to an existing Web application, it was decided to dump the table-based layout used in its original design in favor of CSS. We opted to use the Yahoo! User Interface YUI Library after evaluating different approaches. The YUI Library provides core...
- Tags: HTML, Menu, Yahoo! Inc., Class, Column, Layout, Yahoo! User Interface Library, Header, Background Color, Yahoo! User Interface Grids CSS, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Tony Patton
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
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