Just to let you know, I will be speaking at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Belgium, next Saturday February 6th. I will talk in the Mozilla Developer Room and give an introduction to HTML5, which will be followed by HTML5 demos by Paul Rouget.
If you are attending, please come along and say hi! 🙂
I know, I know, there has definitely been some time since the last Geek Meet. But believe me, this one will make up for the wait! 🙂
Man has always been inspired by things moving around and giving away noises, so it was just a matter of time before video content showed up on the web. For a number of years, Flash was the de-facto standard of showing video, but now, with HTML5, the video element has made its way into our lives.
Usually blog posts with the words “problem, “considered harmful” and similar are just crying foul, but I would like to bring up something I actually believe is/will become a real problem: HTML5 syntax options.
One of the most common problem on the web is slow web sites, wasting he time of end users. Now, perhaps, Mozilla has come up with a solution for this, which will be applicable for all web browser vendors.
It seems like everyone is talking about HTML5 now, but the discussion is spread out and seldom gives the background, explanation what HTML5 really is and if/when it’s usable.
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of being invited by Mozilla to Prague to, amongst other things, discuss the future of Firefox.
Late last night I came home from the fantastic event that was Mozilla Camp Europe Prague, 3-4 October 2009, and I thought I’d tell you how my Prague visit was, what I thought of the event and my thinking about the sessions.
It’s time again, my friends! And this time, it will be even more fantastic! Are you ready? Are you READY?!
When I released Firefinder back in May, I had some ideas with what more I wanted to do with it. Now I can happily say that I have implemented those ideas!
Wow. I can’t really believe these are my first words of blogging again in almost two months. It always feels a bit funny getting back in the saddle, but once there, I’m as happy as a butterfly on a flower!
Yesterday we had Geek Meet Charity in Stockholm, and in my opinion, it was a great success!
I’m am so tired of the never-ending misunderstanding of the alt attribute versus the title attribute.
Sometimes I see such gems in my daily work, I just have to share…
Admit that you have always wanted to know how to develop a Firefox extension but never had the time to learn. 🙂 Here I will walk you through and at the end of the article we will have created a fully functional Firefox extension!
When I first coded and released Obtrusive JavaScript Checker, I had some more ideas with it, as well as some great feedback I have received and wanted to see to. The result is Inline Code Finder, which looks for inline styling as well as what the Obtrusive JavaScript Checker offered, and it comes in two versions!
I felt it was about time to bring up the topic in one of my oldest drafts (written in May 2005) which, for some reason, never saw the light of day.
Something was brought to my attention which, to say the least, left me a little baffled: IE 6 is coming to mobile phones…
When I review web sites, and also in my own projects with a number of different team members, I almost constantly stumble across something web developers should really refrain from: inline styling and inline JavaScript code.
In my work, part of it is analyzing both other people’s code as well as my own. Now I have created Obtrusive JavaScript Checker to help me out with that!
Yesterday I ran into a little unexpected behavior when adding title attributes to a couple of link elements.
A lot of web developers, at least over the years, seem to have fallen for Microformats. Naturally, the given question then is: do we really need Microformats?
Having had a number of jobs and from being a consultant, getting the opportunity to see how a lot of companies and clients work over the years, I’m way too often surprised how underestimated cooperation and keeping a competence available throughout a project really is.
As you all know, form elements aren’t that easy to style, especially not consistently. At a first glance, the button element seems like a sure winner, but once you delve into it…
For those of you who have missed it, IE 8 beta is now available for download. Let’s take a quick look on what’s in it.
I am, hypothetically ( 🙂 ) working on an e-commerce site, and the other day I discovered that IE doesn’t post all values with a form.
Microsoft released MOSS, Microsoft Sharepoint Office Portal, which is a web-based collaboration and document management platform.
What’s in an award, really? Swedish computer magazine Internetworld has just given the Sweden’s Best Web Site 2007 award to the supposedly best web site in Sweden.
I have a strong interest in semantics in general, and when it comes to web developing, the benefits of properly marking up a document should not be neglected. One problem is that some people don’t understand the difference it makes, so therefore let me humbly make an attempt to explain why semantics is important.
application/xhtml+xml?Remember a couple of years ago, when serving XHTML with a text/html MIME type was the worst you could do if you were serious about your trade?
It is fairly easy to distinguish a developer’s knowledge level by their usage of label elements. To see how much they care about accessibility, usability and semantics.
People have asked of my opinions about HTML 5 and the road they’re taking. Basically, I feel that you need to do a lot of reading up to actually be eligible to have an opinion, so I’ll try tread lightly with mine, and only cover certain areas.
Wednesday night we had yet another Geek Meet in Stockholm, and this time we covered HTML 5 and XHTML.
I don’t know how many of you who can actually do this, but for fun, I’ve kept the first web site I ever built online, and now I want to share it with you!
Just a small note to those of you who use my getElementsByClassName script: it has been updated for performance reasons and flexibility reasons.
As late as yesterday, I heard an argument I didn’t except to hear. Not now, not in 2007.
Time for the last Geek Meet before the summer, and it will most likely be an intense one. 🙂
One thing that I’ve always taken for granted how to do is the indentation of code. Sure, people place characters like { either on the same line as the CSS rule/JavaScript function name, or on the following, and that’s just fine. But what I mean here is how to accomplish the actual indentation.
When done properly and in a serious manner, SEO is truly a fascinating field! However, I have some wonderings about how Google and other search engines treat and index certain things.
When developing web sites with heavy interactivity, your scripting skills are really put to the test. And, sooner or later, you will be put in a situation where it’s a fine line between following web standards and what’s best from a performance and structure perspective. One question that follows that is: is it ok to apply invalid attributes via script to elements?
One of the web sites I’m currently working on has a lot of line dividers, and they had been added somewhat inconsistently. Therefore, I decided to go the semantic route and throw out all div and p elements, and replace them with one single class-free hr. Oh man, did I open up a can of worms…
I’ve always liked semantics and to choose how to properly mark up content to convey the information the best way possible. But, and I know this might sound weird, as of lately, I’ve had a harder and harder time to find the suitable content for one specific element: the H1.
I’ve recently started on a new assignment (which is mainly the reason that I haven’t been able to muster any extra strength to blog, besides from my family being sick…), and I’m hired as a subcontractor. This means that I’ve been introduced to a lot of people the last couple of days, and it has almost exclusively been with a term that I hate:
The HTML guy.
Vlad Alexander has written an article entitled X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2, discussing what he likes respectively dislikes.
An alternative suggested solution is using FlashReplace.
Hopefully, you’re someone who cares about web standards and wants to have valid code for the sake of web browsers’ rendering and for you as a web developer, to more easily spot errors right away. Then, when including Flash content in your web page, the default code output from various tools and web sites out there is invalid (at least when it comes to using them with a strict DOCTYPE, which I’d really recommend you to go with).
So, what should a poor caring web developer do?
Ever been in the situation where you want to put some HTML on top of Flash movie? You’ve cursed the designers for using Flash, and stated that it is impossible? If that’s the case, I’ll advise you to reconsider.
Some people like to proclaim that the so-called web standards war, i.e. a wide-spread usage of web standards, is over. Let me take a couple of web sites as example why I don’t agree:
The hunt for getting a good search engine ranking affects more and more companies. A higher ranking equals more visitors equals (most likely) more customers. More customers, in turn, equals more money, which is what business is about.
But sometimes, the hunt hurts the quality of a web site.
Recently I got a bug report from marketing (don’t all bug reports come from there? 😉 ), about an unexpected problem in Firefox in Mac OS X. The end users had problems tabbing through the web page, and especially through forms. Since I, at the time, sat on a PC, I couldn’t test with my settings, although I knew I hadn’t seen the problem on my Mac at home.
If you develop a web page nowadays, you don’t use br tags, right? Or do you? And if you do, is it wrong, or the most efficient and pragmatic way to implement a desired line break in some text?
Let’s take a look at this from a number of perspectives: