Tags: web, xhtml

Making the Web fit for mobile

The World Wide Web Consortium last week published a first public working draft of Device Independent Authoring Language, which is aimed at making it easy to present content on a wide variety of mobile devices. Read more »

Opera's browser finds its voice

Norway-based Opera is adding voice control to its eponymous browser, allowing users to browse the Web by talking to their PC and have the contents of Web sites read back to them. Read more »

Language barriers may stifle Web future

The lack of backwards compatibility between the Web scripting language XHTML 2.0 and its HTML predecessors could make billions of Web pages obsolete, experts fear. Read more »

Web word processor adds PDF conversion

Web-based word processor Writely can now convert documents to the Rich Text Format (RTF) and Adobe PDF standards, adding to recent new features like OpenDocument support. Read more »

Microsoft hints at general plan for IE8

Microsoft will continue to prioritise security and ease-of-use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to improve Web development with current standards compatibility, according to the software giant. Read more »

Writely warms to OpenDocument

The company behind Web-based word processor Writely announced on Monday that it will handle documents saved in the OpenDocument format. Read more »

Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in

Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »

Reversal: Next IE update divorced from Windows

Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the company will ship an update to its browser separately from the next version of Windows. Read more »

IBM compounds its XML toolset

A new addition to the Emerging Technologies Toolkit means disparate XML technologies can now be used together. Read more »

Mozilla 1.0 unleashed

More than four years after its inception, the open-source browser is ready for the public. And its impact could go beyond browsing Read more »

Put XHTML 1.0 Strict and Transitional to work

XHTML 1.0 comes in three flavours, and it requires more than a sense of taste for developers to tell them apart. This article discusses the Transitional and Strict flavours of XHTML and how to leverage them appropriately. Read more »

XSL-FO makes XML documents flexible and multipurpose

Find out how you can leverage the power of XSL-FO, and discover why you may want to use XSL-FO with XSLT. Read more »

Making the switch to XHTML

Learn how to make the switch from HTML to XHTML and take advantage of advanced XHTML features. Read more »

Build a better Web site by understanding floated elements in CSS

One of the most important concepts a Web developer can understand about CSS are floated elements, which serve a valuable function in aligning and positioning elements relative to each other. Read more »

How do I ... use CSS to create an image map on my website?

Thanks to the rise of Flash technology, image maps are rarely used anymore. However, CSS does allow you to create an image map with some subtle mouse over effects with a few slick modifications to the

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Choosing the right document type for Web pages

One of the features of HTML standards is that each HTML document requires a document type declaration (DOCTYPE). Web developers are often confused when using a document type and simply omit it. Read more »

When will Microsoft fully embrace Web standards?

I recently revisited the issue of using Web standards when working with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Outlook 2007. The products' lack of adherence to Web standards was surprising given the advancements incorporated in Internet Explorer 7. Read more »

Ensure your Web site displays properly with character encoding

This column examines why developers use character encoding for Web pages, outlines the character encoding options, and offers guidance on how to choose a character encoding. Read more »

The spider's Web of CSS

Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. Read more »

Creating a pure CSS horizontal navigation bar

Now that tables are no longer recommended for positioning any nontabular page content, many Web authors are looking for ways to create navigation bars using structural XHTML markup and CSS formatting. Read more »

And the crowd goes wild

[blogs:betaliving] -- In the wash-up of the iPhone announcement, there has been a lack of analysis by way of wrestling metaphors. I seek to fill this void by thinking about it in terms of the browser war. Read more »

Aussie Web design awards open

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Looking for recognition of your team's hot design skills? The McFarlane Prize is one of Australia's most premier industry awards for Web designers and is open for nominations until August 31. Read more »

Here's to the next step!

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- By now you can probably see the new look Builder AU Web site. Not bad, don't you think? Read more »