A case of be careful of what you dream for, it might happen?
On my ideal date, a pretty lady laughs at my jokes over a delicious meal. We end the night by making passionate love. On my dream date, my 7th grade science teacher points and laughs at my teeth as they slowly crumble into [...]
Would you really want your dreams to become reality?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 10 March, 2009 to the comment subset
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HTML headings, accessibility, and SEO
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 29 January, 2009 to the comment subset
Roger Johansson has written a great refresher about the correct use of HTML headers, or elements such as h1, h2, etc.
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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 [...]
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Mind how you link your punctuation
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 29 October, 2008 to the comment subset
Just what is the best way to hyperlink this sentence, if the words JavaScript and screen readers are to be the anchor text?
Blind accessibility consultant Aaron Cannon and co-worker Aaron Barker have authored “JavaScript and screen readers”.
And if you thought there were at least six options to choose from, then you were correct.
What’s more [...]
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Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 to the technology subset
Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
The semantic web is four years old today!
Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers and developers could add semantics to today’s web [...]
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