Excuse me whilst I blow the dust off my blogging keyboard. It’s a been a while…
Last Friday I couldn’t help noticing many of the people I follow on Twitter having a good old grumble about Apple’s recently published HTML5 showcase page.
The main gripe surrounds Apple’s claim that the page is a showcase of modern web standards, yet at the same time uses browser sniffing to detect if you are using Apple’s own browser and, golly-gosh, if found to be using anything other than Safari, blocking you from seeing all the visual delights entirely.
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Last week I asked the question on Twitter, “What HTML element do you use for each line of a form? P, DIV, or something else?”
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At the end of last year Microsoft announced details of improvements to IE8’s compatibility view. It’s an announcement that went largely unnoticed until last week when a few rumblings could be heard coming from the web standards community.
To get to the bottom of this we need to understand the history.
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How does your site fare in the search engines? Have you ever thought of hiring a search engine ‘expert’ to improve your site’s search engine positioning?
Friend of mine, web designer-developer, SEO consultant and all-round good guy, Eggman John (who from now we’ll just call John) recently posted an article outlining seven reasons why you don’t need SEO. John’s article caused a bit of a stir amongst the SEO community, but there is a lot of sense in what he says.
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