Say what you will about the aesthetics of rounded corners in web design, the reality is you’re probably going to have to implement them some day. It used to be that rounded corners required four separate images. Then came a clever trick that used just one circular image. But creating rounded corners was still a pain [...]
Ian Hickson, head of one of the standards groups charged with creating HTML5, caused quite a stir over the weekend when he alleged that Adobe was trying to block HTML5. Adobe quickly denied the charge, but not quickly enough for the open web evangelists to grab their pitchforks and take to blogs in anger. After all, [...]
With all the fervor over HTML5 video, the death of Flash and the future of open video on the web we thought it might be helpful to ask the man who proposed the HTML5 video tag for his opinion on the matter. It shouldn’t be any great surprise that Opera CTO Hakon Lie — famous for [...]
The developers of Firebug, the popular Firefox add-on for web developers, have released a new beta of Firebug Lite, the lightweight version of Firebug that works in any browser. This new version is a significant update to Firebug Lite. While the full power of Firebug still requires Firefox (see our coverage of the recently released Firebug [...]
Flash might not be disappearing overnight, but there’s no denying that HTML5 is gaining momentum every day, particularly when it comes to web video. YouTube and Vimeo both recently announced support for browser-native video through HTML5, joining other, smaller web video sites that already supported HTML5. But while HTML5 video is here, it isn’t quite ready [...]
The arrival of the Apple iPad is still months away, and already the tech pundits are declaring the demise of Flash. The view is based largely on the fact that the iPad, like the iPhone, will likely not support Adobe’s plug-in, but it’s also a result of the enthusiasm surrounding the current momentum of HTML5. The [...]
Think that turning off cookies and turning on private browsing makes you invisible on the web? Think again. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a new web app dubbed Panopticlick that reveals just how scarily easy it is to identify you out of millions of web users. The problem is your digital fingerprint. Whenever you visit [...]
Google is now offering up YouTube videos using HTML5’s next-generation video tag. But this advancement is only available to those surfing with Chrome or Safari — Firefox and Opera users need not apply. YouTube’s HTML5 video support effectively eliminates the need for Adobe’s Flash plug-in for viewing videos on the site. The move comes in response [...]
The future of the web is fast approaching. HTML5, the successor to today’s HTML 4, the lingua franca of the web, has reached the Last Call stage and is beginning to look like a finished spec. While it will be some time before HTML5 can be called complete, forward-thinking browsers already support much of the [...]
Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, is leading a charge to make privacy settings more explicit to users by creating visual cues in the browser. Raskin’s idea uses a set of small icons to denote the limits of a website’s privacy policy. Raskin likens the idea to how Firefox (and [...]