Published January 23rd, 2008
in Web Standards.
While the community argued over X-UA-Compatible or X-IE-VERSION-FREEZE, depending on which side of the fence you sit, the W3C published two new and important documents:
Moments ago the joint effort of the W3C HTML WG and WHATWG resulted in publication of two documents in the W3C Technical Report space: HTML 5 and HTML 5 differences from HTML 4. I think I can safely say that the WHATWG community is very happy with the W3C publishing HTML 5 as a First Public Working Draft. Many thanks to all involved!
It is great to see this actually getting out there. It is very fun indeed to look at the new elements and think about how you would use the likes of <dialog>, <command>, <meter>, and finally being able to do things like input type=”datetime|datetime-local|date|month|week|time|number|range|email|url”.
It feels like semantics are being added in. The generality of div class=”whatever” is all well and good, but for the very common situations, I am looking forward to using type=”email” and having the browser take care of validation, and using my address book to pick through.
Via Ajaxian
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Published January 16th, 2008
in CSS.
Conditional Comments are basically a new set of comment-like tags that IE 5+ supports. These tags look very much like the good old comment tag and in fact are treated as such by all browsers except IE, in which they operate a little more intelligently. Using Conditional Comments, you can selectively “comment out” any portion of your page in a way that only IE interprets the containing content, or the other way around.
This is a good and valid alternative to invalid browser specific CSS hacks we used ealier.
<!--[if IE]>
You are using Internet Explorer.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5]>
You are using Internet Explorer 5.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5.0]>
You are using Internet Explorer 5.0.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5.5]>
You are using Internet Explorer 5.5.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 6]>
You are using Internet Explorer 6.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>
You are using Internet Explorer 7.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 5]>
You are using Internet Explorer 5 and up.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 6]>
You are using Internet Explorer lower than 6.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 5.5]>
You are using Internet Explorer lower or equal to 5.5.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 6]>
You are using Internet Explorer greater than 6.
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]>
You are NOT using IE.
<![endif]-->
Operators supported by Conditional Comments
| Operator syntax |
Description |
| ! |
The “not” operator. |
| lt |
The “less than” operator. |
| lte |
The “less than or equal to” operator. |
| gt |
The “greater than” operator. |
| gte |
The “greater than or equal to” operator. |
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Published January 2nd, 2008
in Web.
AOL is going to stop support for Netscape Navigator from February 1, 2008.
Q: What will this mean?
A: We’ll continue to release security patches for the current version of the browser, Netscape Navigator until February 1, 2008. After February 1, there will be no more active product support for Navigator 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browser. This includes Netscape v1-v4.x, Netscape v6, Netscape v7 Suite, Netscape Browser v8, and Netscape Navigator/Messenger 9.
And they recommending Mozilla Firefox
Q: I use Netscape now. Now that Netscape is stopping support, what do I do?
A: The Netscape Team fully stands behind the fine work being done by the Mozilla Foundation. We recommend that you download Mozilla Firefox and give it a try. We know you’ll enjoy it!
Q: Will I still be able to use Netscape?
A: You will still be able to download old versions of Netscape from the Netscape Archive (link coming). However, these products are no longer supported. Our recommendation for the nostalgic out there is to download Mozilla Firefox, and add on the Netscape theme and Netscape extensions which are available here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/56836
Read Netscape blog for more details »
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And This time it’s an icon resource. After a small research I managed to list some good FREE icon resource for web as well as for desktop applications.
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