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Extensions to the CSS Object Model
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By: Daniel Glazman
The CSS Object Model is now almost eleven years old. All Web authors know it's only partially implemented and rarely interoperably implemented. There is now an ongoing effort to stabilize the most mature bits of the specification. Thirteen years ago,...
- css
- dom
How to fold Jeff's table columns with CSS
The 'collapse' keyword in CSS is designed for HTML viewers that interactively expand and collapse table columns. Current browsers don't do that by themselves, but with the help of some other features of CSS you can make browsers collapse columns, too. Here is the story behind the tutorial that explains how: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/folding
- css
Web Education moving forward - Opera WSC goes to the W3C!
I have been fighting to improve web education for a number of years now - many courses and resources around the world that profess to teach web design/development are woefully out of date, resulting in students completing courses without the...
- education
- open-web
- web-standards
Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-07-06 - 2011-07-12
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. The big discussions from last week have continued this week. Mutation and Canvas accessibility. Anne Van Kesteren covers what I have not in his report. HTML5 is still in Last Call.
- api
- dom
- html
- html5
- javascript
- open-web
- webapps
Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-06-29 - 2011-07-05
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. There was a few giant threads, be prepared to mutate any opinions about these events. Read also Anne van Kesteren's report. HTML5 is still in Last Call. Conversations Proposals Maciej...
- api
- dom
- html
- html5
- http
- open-web
- w3c
- webapps
Interview: Adobe on HTML5 and Authoring with the Open Web Platform
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By: Ian Jacobs
I met by phone with four engineers from Adobe on 17 June to ask them about how emerging open web standards such as HTML5, SVG, CSS3, and WOFF are transforming Web publishing. Arno Gourdol, Director of Engineering for Flash Runtime...
- html5
- open-web-platform
Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-06-21 - 2011-06-28
The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. I like the fact that Anne Van Kesteren has a different overview than mine. His last report. HTML5 is still in Last Call. Conversations Proposals WebKit Team has been experimenting...
- html
- html5
- interoperability
- open-web
Beta Testing Community and Business Groups
In April I wrote about W3C Community Groups and Business Groups, two new programs designed to make it easy for developers, users, and other stakeholders to discuss and develop Web technology. Since then we have been generating interest in new...