noel alanguilan

special html characters i use in my web development tasks.

firefox 3.5 just came out. and from the reviews of the release candidates, 3.5’s javascripts’s performance is twice as fast as the previous release (3.0.11). its also a good chance for me to play with html5–the up and coming web standard.

its really one of my pet peeves — work that’s half done. i rarely get to fall into that pit but when i do i’d hate myself for it for weeks.

i finally got my hands on a website design that i have been asking for for several months now. to be fair, i don’t think that’s the fault of the desiger. but all i got from them are two psd files (adobe photoshop layered images) and that’s it. there’s no stylesheet (css) file, no javascript/dhtml for the menu mouseovers, there’s no gif or jpg images for the mouseovers. i can live without the javascript for the mouseovers, heck i may be able to get by without most of the graphics but the lack of a css file is really a letdown.

css or cascading stylesheets is a file or a group of files that governs how a web page, and to a larger extent, the whole website is formatted. i have designed and help design websites for years now and cascading stylesheets are an essential part of the design of a modern website. without it the design is only half useful. or half useless. the designer should only be paid half of the fee.

so this leaves me cramming and “making do” which i terribly, terribly dislike.

i need to hit something…

my apologies to microsoft but i just found it funny.

internet explorer 8 — the next iteration of ms’ browser — has three rendering modes which means it can show you a page in three different ways.

wow. a schizoid browser. finally.

as far as i am concerned there’s only a single standard for html/css and there should be one way of rendering or showing an html page on your screen. isn’t that the point of web standards?

listen guys. you don’t own the web. you may own an intranet or two but you don’t own the web. please stop acting like you do.