Thirty years ago, Shel Horowitz worked 31 days straight without a break at his marketing consulting firm in Hadley, Mass., and swore he would never do it again. “It was a stupid thing to do, and it put my health and sanity at risk,” he says. These days Horowitz leans on a virtual assistant–Michelle works […]
What is HTML 5 all about?
HTML5 is a new version of HTML and XHTML. The HTML5 draft specification defines a single language that can be written in HTML and XML. It attempts to solve issues found in previous iterations of HTML and addresses the needs of Web Applications, an area previously not adequately covered by HTML. Abstract This specification defines […]
Tableless webdesign
Tableless web design (or tableless web layout) is a method of web design and development without using HTML tables for page layout control purposes – tables are only used to present tabular data. Instead of HTML tables, style sheet languages such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to arrange elements and text on a […]
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). It is arranged as a consortium where member organizations maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. As of February 2008, the W3C […]
Unobtrusive Javascript
"Unobtrusive JavaScript" is an emerging technique in the JavaScript programming language, as used on the World Wide Web. Though the term is not formally defined, its basic principles are generally understood to include: Separation of functionality (the "behavior layer") from a Web page’s structure/content and presentation Best practices to avoid the problems of traditional JavaScript […]