Tag: Standards

The following posts are tagged Standards.

Opera and Safari have passed Acid3

My heartiest congratulations to Opera and WebKit for scoring 100/100 in the Acid3 test that was released just a couple weeks ago (or so)!
But I’m still sticking with Firefox because it’s still so lovely. Well, I hope Firefox 3 catches up with the first two browsers. I can’t wait
And I don’t think even [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


IE8 will be standards-compliant by default

This is very late, but as the adage goes, it’s better late than never…
The Internet Explorer development team has FINALLY decided to make IE8 render according to W3C standards by default!
Now, you may be thinking, hot damn that’s gonna be a long wait, and when will IE6 be finally phased out? Well, the latter question [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Potassium, IE and WordPress 2.3 tags

OK, I’m getting fed up of all this Internet Explorer crap. As you know, Potassium does NOT support IE6. However, my first upcoming WordPress theme and a slight handful of my future themes will support IE6, and all future themes from my birthday ‘08 will not support IE6.
Now to rant about my tag cloud and [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design

I was browsing the archives of an excellent web design site called Deziner Folio (which I highly recommend you check out for detailed Photoshop, XHTML and CSS tutorials and resources), then I saw this post that in turn links to this page and decided I should post about it too.
This pie chart depicts the breakdown [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


XHTML 1.0 or 1.1?

Ever wondered what the hell the major difference between XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 is?
Never you mind those Transitional, Strict and Frameset DTDs for XHTML 1.0, but let’s consider these two version numbers. What made the dudes at W3C devise XHTML 1.1? Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


HTML5? Elementary, my dear W3C

Ever since the WHATWG decided to pick up on development of the good ‘ol HTML that hasn’t been worked on for over eight years (since HTML 4.01), the web designer and browser community has been getting pretty noisy. Right now, things are gonna take a TIGHT turn. A good turn, perhaps, for the semantic Web. Comments are closed. Read the complete article »


Workaround for IE6’s box expanding bug

Everyone knows that the W3C stated that we should never expand boxes even if there are other elements wider/higher than themselves, but IE6 just wouldn’t listen. It thinks it’s being civil but in reality it just destroys a layout. This bug has been known for half a decade but there haven’t been perfect fixes. My [...] Comments are closed. Read the complete article »