Friday, July 3, 2009

We now return to our regular programme.

Whoops. Turns out that you actually can forget about rehosting your blog for over 8 months. Anyway, back on track. The old koru.nl URL will probably start redirecting towards this new URL in the following week.

Last night I was amused to see that the W3C has been forced to scrap the codecs from the HTML5 spec because the browser vendors were perpetually bitchfighting over what codec standard they were to implement (i.e. "not yours").

In short: third party plugins for audio and video will probably have to be used for a long time running and HTML5 just lost its prize pony. Shame about the former, but sue me for not having a bleeding heart over the latter.

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posted by Hung Laxley at 11:11 AM 0 Comments

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Web duh-velopment

I'm not sure how this was considered to make sense, but marvel at this forced-upon snippet of web development with a capital Z:

pretty

Brilliant! Whichever side of the process you want to throw yourself on, it's just plain filthy.


  1. It assumes an XHTML document without an initial opening element for <body> is okay. No validator will love you -rightfully so.

  2. The scroll attribute is an "awesome" proprietary IE attribute. No matter which browser it is, vendor-specific crap like that needs to be absent.

  3. Three different ways to write an opening <body> just so IE won't produce a scroll bar on a fullscreen Flash site? Oh boy!

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posted by Hung Laxley at 1:02 PM 2 Comments

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 not fully retarded after all

Hooray! The IE dev team has buckled under the delighted backlash of web developers world wide and announced that IE8 will render in standards mode by default. As they cheerfully note themselves, this is a blatant retraction of their earlier announcement, which essentially required developers to explicitly force IE8 to not render like it's retarded siblings.

This is pretty heartwarming, especially since Microsoft has a pretty terrible track record for listening to web developers. Backpedaling on this extremely stupid decision is a welcome change to the typical "well, we're the guys eating paint chips for lunch, so it defintely makes sense to us!" stance.

I do secretly wonder what the catch is. Given their track record, They'll probably break something. Like ACID2 compliance :(

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posted by Hung Laxley at 12:01 PM 0 Comments