Browsers may be able to hide content that is deemed “Not Safe for Work” (NSFW) if a proposal to include a NSFW tag is incorporated into the HTML 5 specification.
One of the most common descriptive notes people have to write using text when they post links or images to blogs, comments or anywhere in HTML [...]
HTML 5: making NSFW content… safer for work
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 10 June, 2009 to the technology subset
HTML 5 websites are the new tableless website
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 4 May, 2009 to the technology subset
A small gallery of websites (and there probably aren’t too many examples about right now) marked up with HTML 5.
View source for a good time!
The markup formerly known as is the future of the web
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 23 April, 2009 to the technology subset
Dave Shea outlines his decision to drop XHTML markup and return to HTML 4.1, which is accompanied by some great discussion on the issue.
And as a result, there seems to be a shifting of consensus from “XHTML is the future of the web” to “XHTML2 is pretty much never going to happen, looks like HTML5 [...]
A list of rare HTML tags including some that may be extinct
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 26 March, 2009 to the technology subset
A list of ten HTML tags, including a couple that are very obscure (there were two I’ve never encountered in 11 years of HTML-ing).
Scan the list then check out the accompanying discussion regarding the usage of some tags.
The realm of junk code, there be no standards here
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 27 February, 2009 to the comment subset
Producing bad HTML isn’t merely poor form, it borders on negligence:
Garbage HTML has a special something to it, a unique blend of being not just invalid, but disgustingly so by going beyond minor misunderstandings or typos and far into the realm of negligence – improperly nested tags, tags that are never properly ended, incorrect attribute [...]
HTML 5: 12 information and learning resources
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 15 January, 2009 to the comment subset
Cameron Moll has put together a great list of HTML 5 guides, articles, and cheatsheets.
I’m pondering the question though. I use use XHTML to markup disassociated.com, and have for years. Should I “switch” to HTML 5? Maybe I’ll just think of another project where I can apply the new specification though.
HTML 5 will be web development’s flavour of 2009
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 9 January, 2009 to the technology subset
John Allsopp discusses the restricted semantic capability of HTML and how the recent HTML 5 specification, and some of the new elements it introduces, will address these limitations.
I’m going to make a bold prediction. Long after you and I are gone, HTML will still be around. Not just in billions of archived pages from our [...]
Validating XHTML markup for You Tube videos
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 21 April, 2008 to the technology subset
Validate Videos
Useful XHTML (1.0 Transitional) markup for those wishing to add You Tube, and other, videos to a blog or website using validating code in their work.
Which should be all of you :)
