Still Breathing

To be honest I’m only learning about JavaScript – at least the New Way of JavaScript – at the moment myself, so I am far from a well-qualified person to speak about it in depth. However, suffice to say that modern JavaScript scripting is really, really cool. And not just cool, but the web world…

Not being one to pass up an opportunity to procrastinate, in this case leave it another day or two before I write something about JavaScript, I’ll draw your attention to this: a new web standards accessibility task force. Including many of the leading lights of the accessibility world, this looks to be an exciting development,…

Second on the list of the 5 technologies that web developers can use to change the world is CSS. This fantastic language offers unparalleled power over the presentation of HTML (and, incidentally, XML documents, too). While support for the current version, CSS2, is flimsy at the moment from certain popular browsers, the fact is that…

Of course, as soon as I start on a series of chats about a particular thing, something else comes along to take my attention away. But this is well worthy of commenting on – Kevin Hale discusses RSS. This is a very interesting look at the present and possible future for the RSS format, and…

HTML is where it all started, and where it all ends. There is no web page without HTML (or some variant of it, such as XHTML). Flash designers may disagree, but that clever Flash movie still needs wrapping in an HTML document to display in a browser. HTML code is the bread and butter of…