A link to the past HTML is the Hypertext Markup Language. Hyperlinks is what made HTML special. When I came to the HTML Working Group, shortly after the browser war was over, the feud of the day was with XLink 1.0, which quickly had […]

Even after the death-of-XHTML2, syntax debate still dominates the day. Here is my contribution. The XML story In the beginning was SGML. There is a lot to be said about SGML so I won't. HTML was specified to be an application of SGML, but […]

Raster graphics (PNG, JPEG, and the rest) are used in a variety of contexts and a variety of resolutions, but most are come from a small number of sources, above all the digital cameras. Since the digital cameras still are marketed by the megapixel, […]

Should-read article: Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA The keyboard-friendly design of Opera was one of the things that attracted me to the browser in the first place, and one I am disappointed with the slow progress with. Keyboard-wise Opera today isn’t substantially better […]

Before the weekend W3C announced that the XHTML2 Working Group would be discontinued. That hardly came as any surprise, and mixed with that feeling of relief and melancholy the death of a terminally ill patient may elicit. To me XHTML2 was the next HTML3, […]

This was a comment on a New Scientist piece, Linking genes to geography could revive race myth. The concept of human races that most of us have grown up with has been shown to be at best simplified or misleading and at worst completely […]

The most revolutionary new feature in Opera 10 is also among the oldest. In this case, while the teaser promising a reinvented Web may have been over the top, the hype is factual. Opera Unite is a revolution, among other wheels in motion. My […]

J. G. Ballard

I held a CSS talk at CVUT a week or so ago.

It doesn’t really matter much these days which browser you are using. On the whole I find Opera less annoying to use than Firefox, and Opera additionally has some nice perks like better keyboard access and Opera Link. Once in a while there are […]