October 2010
4 posts
Decision made: Moving to my own blog
So yea, I’m being kind of fickle. I had a blog for years that wasn’t on my site. And about 18 months ago, I got super busy and just couldn’t get inspired to post in it. Plus, Twitter makes it so easy to discuss issues in quick sound bites that I suppose I got busy and lazy.
About six months ago, I realized that debating and discussing in 140 characters doesn’t always do...
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HTML5: Native Video, DRM and Plugins
I was reading a discussion on the W3C Bug tracker about native video and whether it should, or should not, provide DRM to protect video content. In the process, the point was made by John Foliot that Apple is presenting their own answers in their browsers and devices to the DRM issue (emphasis mine):
> The question of DRM within the media formats supported by browsers is a
> separate issue...
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Inner border (content or padding edge) quirk in...
Today on Twitter, Keith Clark (@keithclarkcouk) mentioned he was struggling with creating an element with rounded corners and rgba borders because the background color of the element was showing through. That sounded silly. I mean, modern browsers have background-clip. We can clip to the content, the padding or the border. That should fix it. But Keith was reporting that it wasn’t working.
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Javascript and HTML5
The web is becoming more and more dependent on Javascript. This has been troubling me a bit since I’ve always held the view that all content should be available and usable (though perhaps in a different state) when Javascript is turned off.
Internet Explorer
In Internet Explorer (up to version 9), the only way to use the new structural elements in HTML5 is to use Javascript to insert the...
