So we’ll eat at a place that doesn’t have a Flash website

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 February, 2010 to the technology subset

Flash powered websites can be a challenge to use at the best of times, but spare a thought for those using devices that don’t support it, and more so where no alternative – such as an HTML version – is offered either.
But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link [...]

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Blue beanie up your avatar in support of web standards

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 25 November, 2009 to the web subset

Next Monday, 30 November, is International Blue Beanie Day, a day for web professionals to show their support for web standards.
If you’d rather not wear a blue beanie – and this isn’t exactly beanie weather we’re having here – you could always consider adding an illustrated blue beanie to your Facebook or Twitter [...]

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Toilet design should take a web standards, accessibility, cue

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 7 September, 2009 to the comment subset

I see plenty of talk about web standards and accessibility in the corner of the web I frequent, but what about standards and accessibility for mobility impaired people in other areas… such as toilets? Victoria Brignell, who has a spinal cord injury, writes about the need for greater standards and accessibility design in toilets.
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HTML 5, rich internet applications, and the demise of Flash?

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 June, 2009 to the technology subset

HTML 5 will allow web designers to create rich internet applications without needing to utilise third party applications such as Flash and Silverlight, as has been the case up until now.
One of HTML 5’s goals is to move the Web away from proprietary technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX, says Ian Hickson, co-editor of [...]

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HTML 5: making NSFW content… safer for work

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 10 June, 2009 to the technology subset

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 [...]

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Browsers can turn web standards into works of fiction

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 29 May, 2009 to the technology subset

Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification, warns that browser manufacturers could yet render it a work of fiction should they offer insufficient support for the new spec.
The reality is that the browser vendors have the ultimate veto on everything in the spec, since if they don’t implement it, the spec is nothing but [...]

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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!

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Insights into the life and work of web professionals

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 9 April, 2009 to the design and art subset

The incredibly detailed results of last year’s A List Apart “survey for people who make websites” have been published.
And as pointed out at Daring Fireball, the charts and bars graphs that feature in the report are not images, they are rendered by way of tables and CSS.

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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 [...]

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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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