Tag: W3C

The following posts are tagged W3C.

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 »


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 »