In support of the still-to-be-finished proposal for allowing most HTML 5 elements to become hyperlinks, I’ve written a quick proof-of-concept demo for your...

One of the few things I think XHTML2 got absolutely, totally, 125% right was freeing the href attribute from the few elements that accepted it and spreading it all over...

By default if you open a new window in Tab based browsers like FireFox 3 or IE 7 new windows pop up in new tabs. In most situations this is the desirable behavior, but...

Alex Bischoff introduces Offspring, a JavaScript library bringing the power of advanced CSS selectors to browsers that can’t quite handle the real thing. ...

Every year we send a team to TechEds to meet you, our customers. They will be at the event site from 8.30 AM to 6.00 PM to answer your questions from...

If you run a website, then a quick way to optimize your website is to download and install HTML-Optimizer that speeds up your web site by optimizing both HTML and script...

HP’s Jena framework for building semantic web applications in Java now supports RDFa. Jeremy Carroll provides sample code for reading any RDFa in any HTML document: ...

Elegant, exquisite, and extreme details on these sites that are sure to please. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus! Designs of the Week This creation is just a...

The Semantic Web continues to break new ground, and Web 3.0 seems to be a term that people associate with it. In the backwaters of semantics, microformats aims to develop...

Stop worrying about how good a designer you are, and start worrying about the myriad tiny details that can elevate your work from passable to near-perfect.  Hide...

Now that PNG transparency is finally getting some IE love, the world is its oyster—subtle gradients, overlays, and watermarks—all perfectly suited to the...

Just a quick mention for something spotted today at RNIB's Web Access Centre Blog: Reading and presenting with PowerPoint if you are a screen reader user. Some good...

I almost forgot to put a mention on this site about something that I have been working on over the last few months, namely SitePoint's HTML Reference. While it is not...

Here's a way of parsing a string of HTML into a series of DOM nodes in Firefox and other Mozilla-similar ("mozimilar") browsers: var range = document.createRange();...

Martin Kliehm and I have proposed a panel called, Get Rich, But Remain Accessible, for this year's SXSW Interactive Conference and Festival. Vote for our panel, and help...

»Good customers pay, bad customers steal.« — Michael Koren, Graphic and Web Designer (* 1969) The Factory-Berlin is an art association with headquarters in...

When I suggested that you write your own blog software, I had no idea that some people would actually take me seriously! So here’s another tidbit to help you on...

Final steps Ok this part has been harder. The technicality of a user registration and everything that goes with it is nowhere near simple. Security measures, hacking...

How do you center a block containing text and/or images without centering the text inside the block itself? This tutorial shows you the standards-compliant way to do it...

Seeing how it’s all about the quick fixes these days (with the bulk of my time taken up with more pleasant pursuits), I wanted to take a minute to spew out some...