http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Design/Web-Design/Standards/HTML A listing of the most recently indexed works about Design and Web Design and Standards and HTML in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Design/Web-Design/Standards/HTML http://tc.eserver.org/35499.html http://tc.eserver.org/35499.html Development of HTML 5, the highly touted upgrade to the language of the Web, is progressing but still faces obstacles, including lack of a standard video codec, said an official of the World Wide Web Consortium at a gathering on Tuesday. http://tc.eserver.org/35444.html http://tc.eserver.org/35444.html This chapter will take an HTML page that has absolutely nothing wrong with it, and improve it. Parts of it will become shorter. Parts will become longer. All of it will become more semantic. It’ll be awesome. http://tc.eserver.org/35390.html http://tc.eserver.org/35390.html The HTML working group have decided not to include the headers attribute in the HTML 5.0 working draft, as they believe the scope attribute is sufficient for associating header cells with data cells. With simple and most complex tables, this is a reasonable assertion, but doesn't work with overlaid and irregular tables, where the associated headers aren't in the same column or row. http://tc.eserver.org/35395.html http://tc.eserver.org/35395.html I'm reading worrying things about the discussions about the next version of HTML, known as HTML5. It looks to me as if things are going in the wrong direction. Oh, and in order not to disappoint long-time readers there'll be a little barb against XHTML pretenders at the end of the article. http://tc.eserver.org/35184.html http://tc.eserver.org/35184.html HTML 5 defines the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. "HTML 5 differences from HTML 4" describes the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes. http://tc.eserver.org/35181.html http://tc.eserver.org/35181.html Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits. http://tc.eserver.org/35182.html http://tc.eserver.org/35182.html You may well ask: “How can I start using HTML5 if older browsers don’t support it?” But the question itself is misleading. HTML5 is not one big thing; it is a collection of individual features. So you can’t detect “HTML5 support,” because that doesn’t make any sense. But you can detect support for individual features, like canvas, video, or geolocation. http://tc.eserver.org/35164.html http://tc.eserver.org/35164.html Ready or not, here it comes. Despite the confusion surrounding its evolution, real-world HTML 5 is right around the corner. Longtime ALA contributor J. David Eisenberg returns to get us all up to speed on the markup we’re about to be writing. http://tc.eserver.org/35153.html http://tc.eserver.org/35153.html To get an accurate picture of why HTML 5 matters and how its adoption will change the future of the web and software in general, you have to take a look at the squabbling drama of contention that HTML 5 is emerging from as industry rivals work to achieve a new level of consensus on how the web should work. http://tc.eserver.org/35160.html http://tc.eserver.org/35160.html Are you interested in HTML 5 and what's coming down the pipeline but haven't had time to read any articles yet? We've put together an educational Introduction to HTML 5 video that goes over many of the major aspects of this new standard. In the video we also crack open the HTML 5 YouTube Video prototype to show you some of the new HTML 5 tags, such as nav, article, etc. http://tc.eserver.org/35050.html http://tc.eserver.org/35050.html Today the HTML conversation is reborn. Standards development around HTML seems to actually have a chance of influencing user experience in the browser, and Microsoft itself is participating in the HTML 5 conversation despite still holding roughly two-thirds of the browser market. While Microsoft's market share is only slowly eroding, developer mindshare seems to have shifted decisively to the band of WHATWG upstarts, Microsoft's competitors. http://tc.eserver.org/35005.html http://tc.eserver.org/35005.html With the flurry of HTML5 tweets this past month, I felt it was somewhat easier to park some of them in a blog post. Retweeting was adding to the confusion for a non-HTML5 person like me. http://tc.eserver.org/35006.html http://tc.eserver.org/35006.html Now that the development of XHTML 2 is discontinued, should we stick to XHTML 1.0 or move forward to HTML 5 or better prefer the old HTML 4? Let’s set things straight once and for all. In this post we are trying to clear up the confusion, explain what is what and describe what markup language you can use for your web-sites. http://tc.eserver.org/34789.html http://tc.eserver.org/34789.html This site is a project to learn, discuss and promote HTML 5. http://tc.eserver.org/34688.html http://tc.eserver.org/34688.html The blogosphere was jerked into excitement when Google gave a sneak preview of its new service, Google Wave. Only the select few have an account, but there’s an 80-minute video about it on YouTube for the rest of us. The service is an HTML 5 app, and so HTML 5 has gone from being too far away to care about to today’s hot topic. http://tc.eserver.org/34689.html http://tc.eserver.org/34689.html Here at SitePoint, we have started thinking about HTML 5, and whether or not the time is right to publish a book about it. To help us decide, we asked a number of web luminaries what they thought. Their answers were both varied and interesting. Take a look and decide for yourself: is it time you started learning about HTML 5? http://tc.eserver.org/34672.html http://tc.eserver.org/34672.html html5doctor is a collaboration between, Rich Clark, Bruce Lawson, Jack Osborne, Mike Robinson, Remy Sharp and Tom Leadbetter. The site came about following a HTML5 meetup after the Future of Web Design conference in London (2009). We decided that there wasn’t a resource that catered for the people who wished to find out more about implementing HTML5 and how to go about it, so we thought we’d better build one. We will publish articles relating to HTML5 and it’s semantics and how to use them, here and now. http://tc.eserver.org/34674.html http://tc.eserver.org/34674.html HTML 5 offers a new element to mark additional information that can enhance an article but isn’t necessarily key to understanding it. However, in the interpretation of 'aside' there lies confusion as to how it can be used, and with that there is demand for the Doctor to step up and clear the air. In this article I will look at what 'aside' was created for, including sample uses and how not to use this useful, misunderstood element. http://tc.eserver.org/33940.html http://tc.eserver.org/33940.html Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies in the most popular web browsers. http://tc.eserver.org/32647.html http://tc.eserver.org/32647.html Arguing for web standards and semantically clean and rich websites is an uphill battle. For years we had to deal with browsers that needed us to mess around with HTML just to display a document in several columns and the visual outcome was much more important than the structure. http://tc.eserver.org/32501.html http://tc.eserver.org/32501.html It has become evident to me that some of my previous comments about HTML 5 and what is going on in the HTML Working Group are the result of misunderstanding and overreacting on my part. I no longer think things are quite as bad. http://tc.eserver.org/32502.html http://tc.eserver.org/32502.html Tommy Olsson comments on the possibility of backwards compatibility and standardised error handling being bad for overall code quality. http://tc.eserver.org/32503.html http://tc.eserver.org/32503.html If you think accessibility and semantics are important and should be improved in the next version of HTML, you need to act. http://tc.eserver.org/32507.html http://tc.eserver.org/32507.html I’ve mentioned several times here that I feel writing markup (or any other code, for that matter) is a craft. I take pride in writing as lean and clean code as possible. From the looks of things there aren’t a whole lot of other Web professionals that feel that way, but we do exist. http://tc.eserver.org/32459.html http://tc.eserver.org/32459.html POSH, in case you haven’t heard of it already, is short for “Plain Old Semantic HTML”, and is obviously much quicker and easier to say than “valid, semantic, accessible, well-structured HTML”. Unfortunately POSH - semantic markup - is also something most people building websites or creating content for the Web have yet to discover. http://tc.eserver.org/30676.html http://tc.eserver.org/30676.html HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command. http://tc.eserver.org/30660.html http://tc.eserver.org/30660.html While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches the developers chose to make those improvements is very different. And with differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years, the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. Uncover the bigger picture behind the details of these two standards. http://tc.eserver.org/30470.html http://tc.eserver.org/30470.html One of the great things about the current HTML 5 draft is that they give plenty of examples of how to specify alternate text for images, although a few of them are misguided. Alternate text should be concise, and a longer description provided with a longdesc attribute if necessary. http://tc.eserver.org/30476.html http://tc.eserver.org/30476.html Firefox 2.0.0.10 broke its implementation of the HTML5 canvas element and guess what, the world noticed. Actual websites started breaking because they relied on the canvas functionality to work. The point is that we expect implementations of HTML5 to happen way before the fifteen year mark. In fact, the fifteen year mark includes having all features at least implemented in two different (shipping) products in the same way with the additional requirement that they have a decent amount of market penetration. This means that when the specification finally makes it to W3C Recommendation it has already proven itself. http://tc.eserver.org/30449.html http://tc.eserver.org/30449.html HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers. http://tc.eserver.org/30133.html http://tc.eserver.org/30133.html The best place to learn about HTML is on the Web itself. A few of the best resources for exploring HTML design are listed here. http://tc.eserver.org/29985.html http://tc.eserver.org/29985.html There is a seldom-used tag called 'acronym'. It was originally mark up, well, acronyms. There is a very similar tag, also seldom-used, called 'abbr', which is intended to mark up abbreviations. Both of these tags were introduced in HTML 4.0. On the face of it, apart from marking up the text, these inline tags do little else. http://tc.eserver.org/29965.html http://tc.eserver.org/29965.html HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command. http://tc.eserver.org/28422.html http://tc.eserver.org/28422.html If you're serious about reaching your full potential as a web page designer / producer, I believe you need to learn to code your sites by hand. http://tc.eserver.org/27421.html http://tc.eserver.org/27421.html The difference between required elements and required tags has received a fair amount of attention recently, but the difference between the two is rarely (if ever) explained in detail. http://tc.eserver.org/27294.html http://tc.eserver.org/27294.html As web sites become more and more like traditional applications, the call-response-reload model used in HTTP transactions becomes increasingly cumbersome. Instead of delivering a single dynamic page, the DHTML or JavaScript developer must create a series of separate pages. The flow of the application is interrupted by page reloads whenever the client communicates with the server. Remote scripting provides a solution to this problem, easing development of complex JavaScript applications, and providing a better experience for the end user. http://tc.eserver.org/25566.html http://tc.eserver.org/25566.html This site explains how to make basic web pages with plain old Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML. http://tc.eserver.org/24847.html http://tc.eserver.org/24847.html HTML (the hypertext markup language used for the worldwide web) may be easier than you think! Experienced users guide you through the basics to more advanced topics, describe paper-to-web conversions, and provide hints for effective use of this medium. We’ll focus on real applications and on putting information on the web. Topics such as online providers and setting up a web server will not be covered. http://tc.eserver.org/21536.html http://tc.eserver.org/21536.html This area includes a variety of references and tools such as: reference charts; important articles; and helpful tools. http://tc.eserver.org/21313.html http://tc.eserver.org/21313.html As users and builders demand more and more richness from the Web, we need to re-evaluate the technology that 99% of it is built on. It seems no matter how sophisticated our back ends get, the front ends remain stagnant. What other options are there? What are the requirements that we as user experience designers face that newer technologies miss the boat on?