It was natural to start off a series on web elements with a vilified element that never made it into any web standard and never will, the spacer. Often elements are made for minute details that nobody, man or machine, are interested in. Should […]
Category: Standards
Printing with CSS
I’ve spent more time with other media than print lately, but this article on XML.com, Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL, is well worth the read. I have no opinion of XSL-FO as a print formatter, relative to for instance Postscript. What […]
HTML withdrawal
Yesterday I finally left the HTML working group. While it was a recent discussion that made me ask myself what was the point in staying, I have grown more disenchanted over the years. Unlike some I don’t agree that XHTML 2.0 is an unmitigated […]
On WAP and Web: A matter of weight
One common statement from the WAP advocates (who, like the World War I veterans, are getting fewer by the year) is that WML is a more compact language than (X)HTML. Not so. It is a simpler language, you don’t need an as advanced browser […]
