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Mozilla Standards Blog » Blog Archive » Fear and Loathing on the Standards Trail (with an Upbeat Coda)

everything we do here at Mozilla is, for the most part, a contribution to the Web platform. I blogged previously about the low esteem I reserve for arguments that favor proprietary platforms (which typically pit rapid proprietary innovation against dawdling Web Platform standardization cycles), but even in that upbeat blog post, I acknowledge that the standards process leaves much room for improvement.

Tags: standards, mozilla, html5, CSS, SVG on 2008-08-31 -All Annotations (0) -About

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SVG Effects For CSS

This document defines how SVG effects are extended to apply to CSS-formatted elements. In particular, it makes the 'filter', 'mask' and 'clip-path' CSS properties and SVG paint servers applicable to CSS-formatted elements (such as HTML elements).

Tags: css, svg, html, ajax, javascript on 2008-08-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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PT’s blog » Another look at the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007

Tags: html, css, ice, MSWord, structure, RDF, metadata on 2008-08-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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IE aims to embrace the web again | Technology | The Guardian

Tags: CSS, HTML, Hachamovitch, IE, Microsoft, Silverlight, W3C, WPF, XAML, XHTML on 2008-08-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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I asked Hachamovitch, who has led the Explorer team since 2003, why it has taken Microsoft so long to address these deficiencies. "It comes down to what we were doing with our time," he said. "Between 2001 and 2003 we were building what you experience now as Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight."
These technologies display not HTML, the language of web pages, but XAML, Microsoft's proprietary code for creating rich visual content.
It sounds good, but Hachamovitch's warmth begins to fade when I broach the vexed subject of browser scripting. The context is important. Hachamovitch had already stated that Microsoft spent three years neglecting IE for the sake of a more proprietary technology, which is now appearing on the web as a browser plug-in called Silverlight. This is similar in some ways to Adobe's Flash, and supports rich multimedia effects within web pages, as well as the ability to run applications written in Microsoft's .NET Framework.
Is it possible that Microsoft is stifling the advancement of JavaScript in order to promote programming within Silverlight instead?
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- Is this is arhetorical question? Early in the article Tim discovers that Micrsoft spent the post Netscape years working on WPF and Silverlight instead of IE and compliance with emerging open web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (the WebKit Docuemnt Model)
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Cascading Style Sheets - Review of ALL editors

Tags: css, html5 on 2008-08-07 and saved by53 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time | Anthony Short | Web Design & Development

Tags: css, javascript, html5 on 2008-07-15 and saved by26 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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CSS Anatomy - a stylesheet deconstructed - nytimes.com // Reinhold Weber

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Siding with HTML over XHTML, My Decision to Switch - Monday By Noon

A CMS expert argues for HTML over XHTML, explaining his reasons for switching. Excellent read! He nails the basics. for similar reasons, we moved from ODF to ePUB and then to CDf and finally to the advanced WebKit document model, where wikiWORD will make it's stand.

Tags: html, xhtml, css, javascript on 2008-07-10 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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# See also my comment on the same web page that explains why HTML 5 is NOT it for document exchange between web editing applications. . - comment by marbux

# Response to marbux supporting the WebKit layout/document model.

Marbux argues that HTML5 is not interoperable, and CSS2 near useless. HTML5 fails regarding the the interop web appplications need. I respond by arguing that the only way to look at web applications is to consider that the browser layout engine is the web application layout engine! Web applications are actually written to the browser layout/document model, OR, to take advantage of browser plug-in capabilities.

The interoperability marbux seeks is tied directly to the browser layout engine. In this context, the web format is simply a reflection of that layout engine. If there's an interop problem, it comes from browser madness differentials. The good news is that there are all kinds of efforts to close the browser gap: including WHATWG - HTML5, CSS3, W3C DOM, JavaScript Libraries, Google GWT (Java to JavaScript), Yahoo GUI, and the my favorite; WebKit.

The bad news is that the clock is ticking. Microsoft has pulled the trigger and the great migration of MSOffice client/server systems to the MS WebSTack-Mesh architecture has begun. Key to this transition are the WPF-.NET proprietary formats, protocols and interfaces such as XAML, Silverlight, LINQ, and Smart Tags. New business processes are being written, and old legacy desktop bound processes are being transitioned to this emerging platform.

The fight for the Open Web is on, with Microsoft threatening to transtion their entire business desktop monopoly to a Web platform they own. The Web is going to be broken. There is no way of stopping Microsoft at this point. What we can do though is focus on Open Web solutions that are worthy alternatives to Microsoft's proprietary push. For me, this means the WebKit layout/document model supported by Apple, Adobe and Google.

~ge~
post by garyedwards on 2008-07-10
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post by garyedwards on 2008-07-09

Publishing content on the Web is in no way limited to professional developers or designers, much of the reason the net is so active is because anyone can make a website. Sure, we (as knowledgeable professionals or hobbyists) all hope to make the Web a better place by doing our part in publishing documents with semantically rich, valid markup, but the reality is that those documents are rare. It’s important to keep in mind the true nature of the Internet; an open platform for information sharing.
XHTML2 has some very good ideas that I hope can become part of the web. However, it’s unrealistic to think that all web authors will switch to an XML-based syntax which demands that browsers stop processing the document on the first error. XML’s draconian policy was an attempt to clean up the web. This was done around 1996 when lots of invalid content entered the web. CSS took a different approach: instead of demanding that content isn’t processed, we defined rules for how to handle the undefined. It’s called “forward-compatible parsing” and means we can add new constructs without breaking the old.

So, I don’t think XHTML is a realistic option for the masses. HTML 5 is it.
@marbux: Of course i disagree with your interop assessment, but I wondered how it is that you’re missing the point. I think you confuse web applications with legacy desktop – client/server application model. And that confusion leads to the mistake of trying to transfer the desktop document model to one that could adequately service advancing web applications.

What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like - CSS-Tricks

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All About Floats - CSS-Tricks by Chris Coyier

excellent discussion about floats and how to solve some of the float problems using "clear"

Tags: css, javascript, floats on 2008-07-07 and saved by8 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Blumentals Software - GIF animator, HTML editor, screensaver tools, utilities - free download

HTMLPad 2008, WeBuilder 2008 :: good HTML-CSS-JavaScript editor

Tags: CSS, Webkit, JavaScript on 2008-07-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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CSS Editors Reviewed | Developer's Toolbox, CSS | Smashing Magazine

Tags: CSS, HTML, Editors on 2008-07-07 and saved by12 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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CSS - HTML Roundup | NETTUTS - Best of the Web - June 2008

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Faux Absolute Positioning in CSS | A List Apart

Tags: CSS, grid, positioning, float on 2008-07-03 and saved by24 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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YAML Builder | A tool for visual development of YAML based CSS layouts

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CMS Templates: YAML Yet Another Multicolumn Layout | An (X)HTML/CSS Framework

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Better CSS Font Stacks | Unit Interactive

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Beware of XHTML

Tags: xhtml, html, css, javascript, webkit on 2008-07-03 and saved by13 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Moving forward with CSS | Wisdump

Review of emerging CSS technologies and techniques. Includes Tools and Frameworks: Skybound's "Stylizer", YAML, CSS Cacheer. Best Practices, CSS3 and Beyond, the Browsers,

Tags: CSS, Ajax, WebKit on 2008-07-03 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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YAML Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future | How-To | Smashing Magazine

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Mozilla Standards Blog » Blog Archive » Fear and Loathing on the Standards Trail (with an Upbeat Coda)

SVG Effects For CSS

PT’s blog » Another look at the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007

IE aims to embrace the web again | Technology | The Guardian

Cascading Style Sheets - Review of ALL editors

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CSS Anatomy - a stylesheet deconstructed - nytimes.com // Reinhold Weber

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What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like - CSS-Tricks

All About Floats - CSS-Tricks by Chris Coyier

Blumentals Software - GIF animator, HTML editor, screensaver tools, utilities - free download

CSS Editors Reviewed | Developer's Toolbox, CSS | Smashing Magazine

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CSS - HTML Roundup | NETTUTS - Best of the Web - June 2008

Faux Absolute Positioning in CSS | A List Apart

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