HTML – Divide and Conquer

June 2, 2009

I’m an HTML Tag Criminal

I read the 10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit article and while I had suspected it for a while, I now know myself to be an HTML Tag Criminal. My biggest crime is:

Crime 4: Using and for Bolding and Italicizing

Actually WordPress will convert and to and , respectively, but I’m pretty sure that my on-line diary suffer from the above crime and a few more…

January 23, 2008

Sneak-peak at HTML 5 – no frames!

The page HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 (W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008) contains a long list of changes. The removal of frames was probably to be expected. Multiple elements and many attributes that only have a presentational function in HTML 4 are removed. There are also some elements that have slightly changed meaning, for example and are given a semantic rather than presentational function. Quote:

The b element now represents a span of text to be stylistically offset from the normal prose without conveying any extra importance, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, or other spans of text whose typical typographic presentation is emboldened.