Dylan Schiemann

After recalling 1.2 due to a pretty big regression, mozilla 1.2.1 is out.

Embedding a Flash movie in xhtml without breaking validation rules.

A good summary and debate of using dom standards vs. innerHTML by Tim Scarfe and Alex Russell. In my coding practices, I use dom compliant methods. I do tend to use innerHTML for debugging purposes. For example, if I want to see what a method is doing to a dom structure, I’ll often do a […]

The W3C SVG Working Group recently added an RSS feed of SVG news. Meanwhile, Scott Andrew and others are experiencing semantic overload, wondering if xhtml aggregation isn’t a better choice. “The rules that govern XHTML as a semantic metalanguage will need to be put to the test”. In developing Tax Newsletters, rss was intentionally very […]

A great DOM/CSS blog entry by Ian Hickson on how user agents handle tag soup.

A mostly unknown CSS 3 property called box-sizing allows developers to set the definition of width and height to the W3C CSS box model or the box model implemented in Internet Explorer 4 and 5. The CSS model includes the width of the content… padding, borders and margin are excluded. The IE box model includes […]

A summary of named color proposals spurred by the debate over the CSS 3 color module inclusion if X11 Named Colors. Please post feedback and comments to the www-style@w3.org Proposal: extensible color name profiles Originally suggested to CSS Working group mailing list at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002May/0203.html by Dylan Schiemann and influenced by http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002May/0144.html CSS2 has the following: […]