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Responsive Design Tricks: Fluid Typography With CSS 3

Building a website that looks good on every screen is a tricky prospect. The key is to keep everything fluid -- type like water, Danielsan."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:07:04 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


WebKit Isn’t Breaking the Web. You Are

The prevalence of "works best in WebKit" sites is threatening to make the web look like it did in the bad old days of Internet Explorer 6. This time it's not a browser maker, or even the popular WebKit rendering engine that's to blame. No, it's web dev"

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:42:55 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Web Developers Sound Off on WebKit Prefixes

The prospect of returning to a web littered with sites that only work in one web browser has the web development community searching for alternative answers."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:02:15 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


HTML5 Video on the Web Today

The hype surrounding HTML5 video may have died down, but as a recent report on the state of HTML5 video on today's web shows, the actual technology is better than ever."

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:13:38 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Google Works on Internet Standards with TCP Proposals, SPDY Standardization

In an effort to speed up the web, Google is proposing a number of changes to the standards at the core of the internet -- the Transmission Control Protocol, better known as TCP."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:30:50 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Mozilla Demos MediaStream Processing, Audio Mixing in Firefox

Mozilla is drafting a proposal for a new web standard called MediaStream Processing that introduces JavaScript APIs for manipulating audio and video streams in real time. The specification is still at an early stage of development, but Mozilla has already"

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:08:29 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Is Apple Using Patents to Hurt Open Standards?

Opera developer Haavard Moen has accused Apple of repeatedly using patents to undermine the development of web standards and block their finalization. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the industry group that governs and oversees the development of web sta"

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:18:31 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


DocHub.io: CSS, HTML Documentation in a Clean, Searchable Site

The web is filled with great documentation for web developers. But sadly finding that great documentation is not always easy. Take the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), for example. Mozilla’s developer site offers a wealth of documentation on CSS, Ja"

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:32:56 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


WAI-ARIA Gets Ready for a Starring Role in HTML5

The W3C's ARIA specification gives web developers a way to annotate pages, assigning "roles" to HTML elements. Now that screen readers actually support ARIA, roles offer an easy way to create a more accessible web."

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:19:52 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


The Trials and Tribulations of HTML Video in the Post-Flash Era

Adobe reversed course on its Flash strategy after a recent round of layoffs and restructuring, concluding that HTML5 is the future of rich Internet content on mobile devices. Adobe now says it doesn’t intend to develop new mobile ports of its Flash "

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:54:49 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


W3C Releases New Web Privacy Standard

The W3C has release the first draft of a new web standard that will help protect your online privacy. The "Do Not Track" standard provides an easy way to let advertisers know that you don't want to be tracked every time you click a link. The hard part ma"

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:19:18 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


What the Death of Mobile Flash Means for the Web

Adobe has ceased development of the Flash plug-in for mobile devices like Android phones and tablets. In abandoning Flash for mobile, Adobe is finally admitting that Flash has no future on the open web."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:55:03 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0

Unlike the rest of the web, online video is passive, boring. Mozilla is hoping to change that with Popcorn.js, a toolkit to help filmmakers and web developers to add web content to online movies. Think live tweets, Wikipedia info, real-time weather, maps "

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:51:24 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


W3C Adds Time Element Back to HTML5

After considerable developer outcry -- including a half-serious #occupyhtml5 protest on Twitter -- the W3C standards body has stepped in to restore the time element to the HTML5 specification."

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:51:51 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


A Possible Future for CSS Selectors

Woolly, the CSS sheep. CSS has some great new tools like pseudo classes and pseudo elements for selecting things just by where they are in the DOM. For example, :first-child can select the first descendant of an element or ::first-letter can select the f"

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:10:43 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


HTML5 Drops the Time Element

The time element is no more; instead HTML5 editor Ian Hickson tells developers to use the semantically meaningless element. That's a bad idea, say many web developers."

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:19:00 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Getting Started with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) have long been the ideal way to create images that need to scale without distorting. For example, SVG is a great format for an icon or logo that needs to be displayed at several sizes without pixelation or other distortion. "

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:03:59 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Discover What’s New in CSS 4

CSS 3 we hardly knew you. The World Wide Web Consortium is already making plans for CSS 4, an update that will give web developers even more powerful ways to wrangle their code into a faster, better-looking web."

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:07:59 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Adobe Proposes New Standard for 3D Effects on the Web

With Flash falling out of favor, Adobe is focusing more on web standards. The company has already proposed a way to improve web layout tools with "CSS Regions" and now it wants to bring high-quality cinematic effects to the web with CSS Shaders."

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:52:49 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


CSS ‘Paged Media’ Brings Book Smarts to the Web

Web "pages" are not really pages; they're more like an ancient scrolls. Håkon Wium Lie, the creator of cascading stylesheets, thinks there's a better way — actual pages. Lie's new CSS Paged Media standard defines a way to turn websites into somet"

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:21:06 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Google Throws New ‘Dart’ Programming Language at the Web

It’s not every day that someone tries to add a new programming language to the web. There’s a good reason for that. The great trinity of web development — HTML, CSS and JavaScript — while not perfect, has proved itself highly flexi"

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:24:09 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


W3C’s New ‘Community Groups’ Give Everyone a Voice in HTML5

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the web’s governing body, has launched a new "Community Groups" plan designed to help speed the development and standardization of HTML, CSS and other web tools. Despite the W3C’s role as overseers of web"

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:57:45 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


W3C Publishes an HTML5 Spec for Web Developers

Chances are, despite embracing the tools therein, you’ve probably never read the HTML5 spec. We don’t blame you. Frankly the worst part of this job is when we have to translate gibberish from the actual HTML5 spec into words normal humans can "

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:19:33 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


MPEG LA: 12 Companies Own Patents Essential to Google’s VP8 Codec

MPEG LA, the self-styled one stop shop for motion video patent licenses, says that 12 different companies have come forward with patents “essential” to the VP8 algorithm championed by Google as a royalty-free compression standard. The organiza"

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:50:54 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


Review: Adobe’s Edge Offers Web Animation Sans Flash

While Edge is a long way from a finished product, this early release shows considerable promise. If you're a Flash developer looking to expand your repertoire to include HTML, CSS and JavaScript animations, Edge just might help."

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:20:57 GMT | Tagged: Web Standards


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