I read today that the W3C will stop developing XHTML 2 later this year, and it will focus on HTML 5.
I have not had direct experience with either of these standards. However, I have been using XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 for a long time for my personal web pages (including these web pages).
The full article is An epitaph for the Web standard, XHTML 2, and the official W3C announcement is XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5.
Tags: HTML, W3C, XHTML
I came across a really nice online photo editor today called Pixenate that is developed by a company called Sxoop Technologies. Perhaps the thing that I find most impressive about it is that it is written entirely in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The user interface is really smooth, and it is very easy to use due to the helpful tips. There are plenty of editing tools to satisfy most requirements, although some of them seemed to be slow to update the photo. I do not know what caused this, because my CPU was certainly not the bottleneck. I also really like the way that each time you load the web page there is a new default image to experiment with!
The interface is so nice that I had to include a screenshot (click it to see a larger version). However, this is not a substitute for playing with it ;)
Pixenate Screenshot
I am not really clear who are the intended users of the software, because I think that most serious photographers will use desktop applications to edit their digital photos. Perhaps the software would be a good addition to photo printing web sites such as PhotoBox.
Tags: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PhotoBox, Pixenate, Sxoop Technologies
I have just included a YouTube video in my previous post. I really thought that this would have been a simple task in WordPress, but I was quite disappointed!
The first hurdle was actually figuring out how to paste the HTML code that YouTube supply. This was not too difficult - I just had to switch to the HTML view in WordPress.
The second hurdle appeared when I tried to validate my post. I had not realised it, but the <embed> tag is not supported in XHTML! So I modified the YouTube code as described here.
I really do not understand why YouTube are using this deprecated tag!
Tags: HTML, WordPress, XHTML, YouTube
