Link dump #129

Help keep accessibility and semantics in HTML

Roger Johansson explains that recent developments of HTML 5 (otherwise known as Web Applications 1.0) have taken a turn for the worse with moves towar [...]

Standards are useful. Semantic markup is pointless.

Interesting article that asks if semantics in web page markup is necessary. (Via Whitespace article Neversidian Neverreadagain. [...]

Visual Vs. Structural

Tommy Olsson has written a great article (at Accesites.org) which tries to define the two approaches a web designer may take when coming up with a web [...]

HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2

A brief rundown of what the new specs for html 5 and xhtml 2 have in store. [...]

Designing HTML emails

Article on designing HTML emails, covers points like images are disabled, whether to use CSS or tables (!) and Five Things to Avoid. [...]

Convert to HTML 4.01

Interesting article by Anne van Kesteren about using HTML 4.01 instead of XHTML: Markover: limpid.nl. [...]

Allowing HTML and Preventing XSS

If you allow user input on your site here's some handy tips for stripping out the potential hazards you're likely to find when allowing HTML . [...]

Star HTML and Microsoft IE7

Molly divulges the reasoning behind why the IE7 team decided to drop support for the * html hack for the next major release of the world's most popu [...]

HTML Codes - ASCII Special Characters

Handy table of special characters used in html. [...]

HTML / XML Validator

checks to a certain Charset, checks accessibility, validity and shows errors with fixes: HTML / XML Validator. [...]

more nifty rounded corners

at pro html. [...]

html 4

I'm still thinking a lot about this. [...]

Why we need standards support in HTML email

Campaign Monitor call for an Acid Test for email clients. [...]

The HTML 5 Image Element

Gez Lemon discusses the HTML 5 img element. [...]

Radiology Art

Take back the Web from the W3C?

Joe Clark asks "When do we take back the Web from the W3C?" in response to a post from Tim Berners-Lee who has informed us that a new workin [...]

Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007

Jeez, what is going on here? Outlook 2007 now uses Word to render HTML in emails. [...]

Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup

Tommy Olsson has a new article published at Sitepoint which highlights 37 useful points to consider when working with HTML [...]

Create PDF documents with HTML

PDML is an informal markup language written in 100% PHP, allowing to create complex PDF documents very easily for people already familiar with HTMLC [...]

The future of HTML, Part 1: WHATWG

Interesting article about the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group's approach to improving HTML. Anne van Kesteren points out some in [...]

HTML Color Codes

Prepare to banish CSS hacks for good

Peter-Paul Koch suggests we should be removing our CSS hacks, especially if we have used the > selector or the + selector or the * html hack.If [...]

The future of HTML

Very interesting interview between Vlad Alexander and Ian Hickson on the subject of HTML 5 and Vlad Alexander and Steven Pemberton on the subject of X [...]