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Aug 9, 2007

HTML 5 Elements Explained

Elliotte Rusty Harold has explained and illustrated the new elements in (X)HTML 5, which might the future of current (X)HTML versions. These elements impart semantic meaning by explicitly acknowledging existence of a certain structure and elements. Which probably makes (X)HTML 5 more semantic as compared to XHTML 2. [Continue]

Apr 29, 2007

Is Forgiveness The Best Approach?

Jeff Atwood thinks that forgiveness is required for any wide-scale adoption like the Web. To be more precise, forgiveness in the way errors in technology are handled. It is necessary to forgive the errors rather than let the error take over the application. [Continue]

Apr 14, 2007

Browser Vendors Pushing For HTML 5

Mozilla, Opera and Apple have joined hands to propose W3C to accept HTML 5 (via Ajaxian). Not very surprising since WHATWG, the group working on X/HTML 5, was composed of these three. Consequentially Microsoft’s does not appear anywhere near that. [Continue]

Apr 13, 2007

Towards Better Markup

Roger Johansson adds to Garret Dimon’s tips for a better markup. The total package can work as a reference material for anyone trying to work on markup. Like, a lot of times, I end up creating with classitis but gets cleaned up on careful inspection. [Continue]

Mar 11, 2007

Using Content Negotiation

This blog now uses Content Negotiation to serve the right content type for XHTML depending on the user agent. Now the pages are served as application/xhtml+xml for browsers that support it, like Mozilla Firefox. I have used m0n5t3râ€™s content negotiation plugin to do so. [Continue]

Jan 13, 2007

Is HTML 5 More Semantic?

Roger Johannson lists new elements in HTML 5, a working draft yet. It includes elements like article, aside, header, footer, nav, dialog and section. Simon Pieters has taken effort where you can get the full list. [Continue]

Nov 2, 2006

HTML Or XHTML? At fadtastic

My digging into the HTML v/s XHTML debate led me to write my latest article on fadtastic - The Invisible Design Decision. I had read a lot on this, but took some time to digest it. However in the light of new development from W3C, you might give a second thought to your decision to go with HTML or XHTML. [Continue]

Oct 28, 2006

HTML And XHTML Will Live Together

W3C is going to try and keep both of them alive (discussion here). The reason is that move from HTML to XHTML, SGML to XML is not just a syntactical shift, but a paradigm shift. And it has not be adopted very easily. [Continue]

Oct 18, 2006

Semantic Markup

We are seeing novel uses of markup languages, like publishing, syndication and even for desktop applications. Think about HTML, XML if you are uncomfortable with the markup languages phrase. There are different categories of markups - presentational (HTML), procedural (Tex, PostScript) and descriptive (XML). [Continue]

HTML 5 Elements Explained

Is Forgiveness The Best Approach?

Browser Vendors Pushing For HTML 5

Towards Better Markup

Using Content Negotiation

Is HTML 5 More Semantic?

HTML Or XHTML? At fadtastic

HTML And XHTML Will Live Together

Semantic Markup

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