Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
CSS 3-COLUMN LAYOUT: coming soon?
by Minh D. Tran
I just caught a glimpse of W3C’s Advance Layout Module, part of the “soon to come” CSS 3.0. Here’s a sample of a 3-column layout that everyone is having a hard time doing with CSS 2:
body { display: “aaa”
“bcd”
“eee” }
#head { position: a }
#col1 { position: b }
#col2 { posiiton: c }
#col3 { position: d }
#foot { position: e }
Which is supposed to be displayed as shown in the image above. Pretty cool, huh?
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Sunday, January 8th, 2006
FASTER THAN I THOUGHT
by Minh D. Tran
I’m not sure if you have read my previous blog, where I mentioned that this website will comform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. I sat at my desk the whole morning, fixing some bugs and bites and tata! my webpage is compliance. On the bottom right hand side, you will see two additional icons that verifies that accessibility of this website.
Friday, January 6th, 2006
CONGRATULATIONS, HOA & UYEN!
by Minh D. Tran
Wow! What a busy start of the new year! But I finally had the chance to upload Hoa and Uyen’s (my sister’s) Engagement photos for the family and friends to view. It was a full house. There wasn’t even room to walk! But everything turned out perfect. Everyone complimented the food that my mom made, and not even a crumb was left over. It was a happy day. Once again, Congratulations Hoa and Uyen! You guys are perfect for eachother.
Saturday, December 17th, 2005
THE RISE OF XHTML
by Minh D. Tran
Just a few months ago, I was browsing through the net and just looking at source codes of how some of these websites design their layouts. Most of these don’t even comply with W3C guidelines on HTML 4, much less XHTML 1.1.
Now, a few months later, as I continue my quest to see if there were a significant amount of “worthy” websites, and to my surprise, a high percentage of Valid XHTML pages are out there! It is amazing just how much the Web changed over a course of a few months.
Anyways, I’m on my quest to achieve higher web standards with regards to accessibility. Oh, and maybe I might consider putting an RSS feed on my webpage so at least you’ll know when my blogs are updated. It’ll come in a few months, I hope [blink] =).
Monday, October 24th, 2005
XHTML: the new standard
by Minh D. Tran
Developing with HTML is becoming a norm that most beginning developers with little or no experience can code upon. In the beginning, It was used, basically, to send information across the World Wide Web.
However, as the Internet has become more popular than TV’s, webpages become more rich in context with multimedia. Images become more complex, better graphical contents, animation, etc. From advertisement, to games, to videos streaming from half the world away, the Internet could be seen as the #1 media not only to exchange information, but to communicate, get attention, and make sales.
Then comes the cold war of the browser world. Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla FireFox, Opera, Safari, etc. all comes with different HTML encoders and renders the graphical user interface differently. On top of that, we have different versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, and the list goes on and on. So now, the question comes back to plain old simple HTML. Can anyone just code an HTML page and expect it to work across all existing browsers? Even an experienced developer haven’t completely mastered this technique, much less a beginner.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommended the use of XHTML 1.0 for developing web content on January 26, 2000. The W3C is an organization that develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. A recommendation from the W3C means that the specification of the code is more stable, thus able to produce consistency across many browsers.
XHTML is in the SGML family and is said to extend HTML 4. It reformulates previous versions of HTML and is based upon XML, a powerful markup language used for data and web applications. Converting your documents to XHTML may ensure your websites work with new and future browsers, mobile browsers, and other internet-accessed devices.
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